Righteousness and Good Mind for the people. To enable me to apprise all, teach me O Mazda Ahura, Through Thine own Spirit and Thine own Words, the principle of creation of the first existence.
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"Through the best righteousness, through the best mind, and through the best works, we approach Thee, O Mazda Ahura."
"Everything that is created was first a Thought."
"Good thoughts, good words, good deeds. And a good nap. Don't forget the good nap."
"He who holds the righteous man dear, and the evil man far from him, he is a friend to Ahura Mazda."
"He who chooses the Lie, O Mazda, for him shall be woe at the end."
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 prays for righteousness and a good, clear mind to benefit ordinary people. He asks the supreme god to personally instruct him, through divine spirit and sacred speech, about how existence itself began and what principle underlies creation. The request is both moral and intellectual: he wants to live rightly, understand origins, and then share that understanding with everyone around him rather than hoard it.
Zoroaster presented himself as a prophet in direct dialogue with Ahura Mazda, and this exact pleading voice defines his Gathas, the hymns scholars credit to him personally. His core doctrine paired Asha (righteousness) with Vohu Manah (Good Mind) as twin paths to the divine, and he saw himself as a teacher commissioned to spread that ethic. Asking to be taught so he can 'apprise all' matches his missionary role perfectly.
Zoroaster lived in ancient eastern Iran, likely between 1500 and 1000 BCE, amid polytheistic Indo-Iranian tribes worshipping many daevas through animal sacrifice and ritual intoxication. Society was pastoral, violent, and clan-based. His monotheistic focus on one wise creator, ethical dualism, and personal moral accountability was radical, challenging the priestly establishment. Questions about cosmic origins were the domain of competing oral traditions, so petitioning the god directly for creation's principle was a bold theological move.
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