I pray not for paradise, for I am already in paradise, when I am with Thee. Thou art my happiness-present and future. I pray not for thy paradise. I pray for Thee. When I feel at one with Thee, it is enough for me. I have no other longing. One am I with Thee. I […]
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Let Thy Peace Ever Reign In My Heart, Ahura Mazda!
The beauties of nature around me make me forget the nervous tension of the busy, work-a-day world. They make me think of Thee and when I think of Thee my heart warms to Thee. It is aglow with devotion for Thee. Thy divine peace descends upon me from on high. Life is no bed of […]
Great Is Thy Justice, But Greater Still Is Thy Mercy, Ahura Mazda!
Men and women are but waifs and strays in life, unless Thou in Thy mercy, dost take them by their hands and lead them on the path of safety. Thou art the strength in man’s weakness hope in his despair and joy in his sorrow. Thou dost take pity on him and heal his broken […]
Fully Will I Adjust My Will To Thy Will, Ahura Mazda
Let me will what Thou willest me to will. Work Thy will in me. I will accept Thy will as law and submit to it. My lip-loyalty to Thee does not mean anything. It counts for nothing. Doing Thy will, living according to Thy will, is everything. I will do all that Thou wiliest me […]
I Will Go Thy Way, Ahura Mazda!
Angra Mainyu, the Evil Spirit’s one desire is that man should not recognize him and appraise him at his true value. He lurked about me to beguile me into the wrong path. I saw not his deception. My Fravashi, Guardian Spirit, warned me against the danger. But as in vain does the ploughman goad his […]
In My Sore Need I Come To Thee For Help, Ahura Mazda!
My life is a great trust Thou hast committed to me. Help me to discharge it aright. Help me to shoulder the heavy burden of life’s responsibilities. Thy helping arm is my only stay, when life’s difficulties loom large around me. When I sail over life’s stormy sea, I am safe only when Thou art […]
Thou Art The Friend Of All Mankind, Time WiThout End, Ahura Mazda!
Blessed I become when Thou dost take me as Thy friend. Great is my delight when, Thou my friend, dost hold me in close embrace and take me near Thy bosom in friendship. Life in this world is livable only in Thy company. I put my trust in Thee, even as a child trusts its […]
Bare Thy Face To Me, I Beseech Thee, Ahura Mazda
I am seized with unquenchable longing to behold Thee face to face, my blessed Lord. I long to see Thy blessed self. I yearn to meet Thy good self. I long to hold close communion with Thee. This longing for Thee and yearning after Thee has been the innate human nature with me. I cannot […]
Help Me To Die, When I Cannot Live
. Death – the hunter, is out with his hound to kill ruthlessly and recklessly anyone and everyone that meets him on the way. This inexorable enemy of man cuts short many lives full of promise in their prime and takes them away before they have so much as seen the least of life. Many […]
Let Me Live Well, That I May Die Well
. I know not the day when death will conquer me. Yet I cannot live with peace, if the knowledge of the day of my death were given me. I will die one day in body, I know, but help me my God, never to die in spirit. Teach me to live and teach me […]
Life Is Incomplete Without Death
. When Spenta Mainyu and Angra Mainyu, the two Primeval Spirits of Ahura Mazda, first met together, they created life and non-life. Life and Death are twins. There is lurking death, where there is life upon earth. Life and death are inseparable and indivisive. Death is life’s inevitable accompaniment and culmination. Apart from death, life […]