. Zarathushtra, Thou Ahura Mazda sayeth, was the first of mortals who heard Thy words. He, Thy prophet, spoke Thy words, unheard by mankind, to our forbears at the dawn of history in Zoroastrian Iran of undying glory. In Thy boundless creation, man is an atom of dust, but the dust that lives and thinks […]
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Let Me Nurture My Mind With Vohu Manah’s Good Thoughts
. Thought gives form and colour to words and deeds. As are the thoughts, so are the words and deeds. Words and deeds are but reflections of thoughts. Man becomes good or evil, as he thinks. Thought is the seed of words and deeds. The fruit is of the seed. Thistles cannot produce roses. Good […]
Let Wisdom Lead Me In Life!
. No price can count the worth of wisdom. It is more precious than diamonds. Name and fame, health and wealth can be bought. Wisdom alone has patiently to be sought. Wisdom’s vision is clear and serene. Wisdom is sublime. Wisdom has foresight and forethought and foreknowledge. Nothing escapes the vigilant eyes of wisdom. Seeing […]
May Thy Divine Glory Dart Its Radiant Rays On Our Community, Ahura Mazda!
. When the sons and daughters of Airyanavaeja migrated southwards and settled on the plateau of Iran, the Aryan Glory, mounted high on the lofty heights of Alburz was the wonder of the world. Then when they established their sovereignty, the Kingly Glory clave unto their Kings. The Pishdad and the Kianian, the Achaemenian and […]
It Is Given To Man Alone To Accumulate Knowledge
. Ahura Mazda has kindled the divine flame of illuminating light in man’s mind. Reason is the prerogative of man. It raises him above the beasts. Animals live by instinct. With reason as the eye of his soul and as his guide to steer the bark of his life, man creates culture and civilization and […]
Give Me Insatiable Avidity For Learning, Ahura Mazda
Give me the will to know and the will to learn, Ahura Mazda. Let me be a learning all my life. Let me be a life-long student. Let me study as an ardent and not as a dilettante. Let me always be looking for information and instruction from anywhere and everywhere. Spare me from conflicting […]
Strengthen Me To Fight Evil, Ahura Mazda
Man harbors within his breast the Good Spirit and the Evil Spirit alike. The ghastly, shadowy forms of his vicious thoughts, sensuous passions, carnal desires, termed Daevas and Draujas, Demons and Fiends, the brood of darkness, fill the atmosphere around him. He carries them on his shoulders. Angra Mainyu, the Evil Spirit, the sovereign of […]
Nature Teaches And Nature Inspires
. Nature is the primal teacher, preacher and inspirator. Nature leads man to invent and nature inspires him to create works of arts and sciences. Nature fills man’s mind with creative thoughts and ideas. When pictograph was not and hieroglyph was not and cuneiform was not and alphabet was not and language was not, nature […]
Mother Nature Kisses Away My Melancholy
. Life without cheer is unbearable affliction and life often leaves me cheerless. Sorrow weighs down my life and unhappiness darkens it. Gloom descends upon me and I am a prey to dark depression. Afflicted with lowness of spirits and subject to dark moods, I brood on the disappointment of life. Grievous becomes the pain […]
Children Are Nearer Heaven Than We Are
. Fresh from the land of the angels, the child is angelic at birth. It is godlike. The soul enters the body of a child and it sleeps its childhood. The reason sleeps. The conscience sleeps. The child exists. It has not yet begun to live a reasoned, responsible life. The child is innocent, for […]
Time Is Life
Thine is Zurvan Akarana, the boundless Time, Ahura Mazda. From it hast Thou carved out Zurvan Daregho-khvadhata, the Time of Long Duration of our world. Eons count not in the eternity of time and a millennium is but a moment. The period of man’s life in eternity is like a flash of Thy lightning that […]