Show me, O Mazda, through Good Mind, how to fulfill this teaching, for which I ask Thee, and through Thy Righteousness, to approach Thee, O Ahura, and to offer praise to Thee.
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"The deceitful shall be destroyed, but the righteous shall attain the best existence."
"I yearn to know the truth, O Ahura Mazda, and to live according to it."
"The evil shall be destroyed, but the good shall flourish."
"May good thoughts, good words, good deeds lead to Paradise."
"In the radiance of righteousness, we shall learn self-knowledge and righteous thinking."
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 the supreme god Mazda for guidance on how to live out a spiritual teaching. He wants clarity of thought to understand it, moral uprightness to practice it, and closeness to the divine so he can offer sincere worship. It is essentially a prayer requesting wisdom, ethical direction, and access to God, acknowledging that the person cannot carry out right action without divine help.
Zoroaster founded Zoroastrianism and composed the Gathas, hymns addressed directly to Ahura Mazda, from which this line comes. As a priest-prophet who claimed personal revelation, he constantly dialogued with Mazda rather than intermediary deities. The triad here, Good Mind (Vohu Manah), Righteousness (Asha), and Mazda himself, reflects his theological system where divine attributes guide human conduct, a signature of his reform of earlier Iranian polytheism.
Zoroaster lived in ancient Iran, likely between 1500 and 1000 BCE, among pastoral Indo-Iranian tribes practicing ritual polytheism with animal sacrifice and intoxicating haoma cults. Warfare, cattle raids, and priestly corruption were common. Against this backdrop he proclaimed a single supreme god, Ahura Mazda, and introduced ethical dualism between truth and the lie. His hymns, preserved orally for centuries, later shaped Persian imperial religion and influenced Jewish, Christian, and Islamic ideas of monotheism, angels, and judgment.
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