Oh Mazda, I shall reveal your message to the seekers of knowledge. And shall tell them that the destiny of a false doer is pain. And the destiny of a righteous doer is happiness.
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"The greatest wisdom is to know oneself. The second greatest is to know where you put your keys."
"The two primal spirits, who revealed themselves in vision as twins, are the Better and the Bad in thought, word, and action."
"The lie-follower is an evil doer, but the truth-follower is a good doer."
"Whoso follows the teachings of Ahura Mazda, him Ahura Mazda will guide."
"Therefore, let us all be of one mind, and let us strive for the good, and let us reject the evil."
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 promises to share divine teachings with people who genuinely want to learn. The core message is moral: people who act deceitfully or harmfully will eventually face suffering, while those who live honestly and do good will find lasting happiness. It frames ethics as a built-in law of reality, not arbitrary rules, tying your choices directly to the life you end up experiencing.
Zoroaster cast himself as a prophet revealing Ahura Mazda's message, and this line mirrors the Gathas, the hymns he personally composed. His entire mission centered on the cosmic clash between asha (truth) and druj (the lie), and on free moral choice. The promise to teach 'seekers of knowledge' fits his role as reformer-priest preaching directly to receptive listeners rather than relying on inherited ritual authority.
Zoroaster likely taught in Bronze Age eastern Iran, roughly the late second millennium BCE, amid tribal polytheism, animal sacrifice, and warrior raids. Morality was largely tied to clan loyalty and ritual correctness, not personal conscience. By proclaiming one supreme wise god and a universal moral reckoning where each individual's deeds determined their fate, he introduced ideas that later shaped Jewish, Christian, and Islamic concepts of heaven, hell, and judgment.
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