By what signs wilt thou appoint the days for questioning about thy possessions and thyself? Thus to the Lord doth Asha, the Truth, reply: 'No guide is known who can shelter the world from woe, None who knows what moves and works Thy lofty plans. The most powerful Of beings is he to whose help I shall go on an invocation.'
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"War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfortunate."
"The Lie is the source of all evil, the Truth is the source of all good."
"He who chooses the good mind, he who chooses righteousness, he who chooses the spirit of devotion, he shall attain immortality."
"The wise man knows what he does not know. The truly wise man knows what he does not know and then asks someone else to explain it."
"The wise man, O Mazda, is he who continually keeps in mind Thy precepts and strives to establish Thy Kingdom on earth."
Iranian prophet who founded Zoroastrianism, the first major religion of cosmic dualism between good (Ahura Mazda) and evil (Angra Mainyu). Closely associated with The Buddha (near-contemporary Eastern moral-cosmological revolutionary). For an intellectual contrast, see Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher of 'beyond good and evil' — Nietzsche appropriated Zarathustra's name for Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883) precisely to invert the original's moral cosmology — the historical Zoroaster founded the good-versus-evil framework Nietzsche's character announces the end of.
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The speaker asks how one will recognize the day of accounting for possessions and conduct. Truth itself answers that no mortal guide can shield humanity from suffering or fully grasp the divine order's workings. Instead, real strength belongs to the one who responds when called for help. In modern terms: judgment is coming, no human has all the answers, and genuine power lies in showing up for those who reach out sincerely.
Zoroaster preached personal accountability before Ahura Mazda and centered his theology on Asha, cosmic truth and order. As a reforming priest who rejected the older Iranian polytheism, he taught that each soul faces judgment based on deeds, words, and thoughts. This Gatha passage reflects his signature dialogue form with the divine, his elevation of Truth as answerer, and his conviction that no intermediary priest-caste could shield believers from moral reckoning.
Living around 1500-1000 BCE on the Iranian plateau, Zoroaster confronted a pastoral society dominated by ritual sacrifice, warrior raiders, and polytheistic daeva-worship administered by hereditary priests. Drought, cattle theft, and tribal violence made questions of suffering and divine justice urgent. His insistence on individual judgment and ethical dualism broke from the transactional sacrifice culture, later shaping Achaemenid Persian ideology and influencing Jewish, Christian, and Islamic concepts of heaven, hell, and final accounting.
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