The true achievement of what is most wonderful, according to wish! I praise Asha! Ashem Vohu.... Yatha Ahu Vairyo...(2). Ashem Vohu.... 2. Come to my aid, O Mazda (3). I profess myself a Mazda-worshipper, a Zoroastrian, having vowed it and professed it. I pledge myself to the well-thought thought, I pledge myself to the well-spoken word, I pledge myself to the well-done action. I pledge myself to the Mazdayasnian religion, which causes the attack to be put off and weapons put down; which upholds khvaetvadatha (kin-marriage), which possesses Asha; which of all religions that exist or shall be, is the greatest, the best, and the most beautiful: Ahuric, Zoroastrian. I ascribe all good to Ahura Mazda. This is the creed of the Mazdayasnian religion. Ashem Vohu...!! Baj before meals ---------------- Thus therefore do we worship Ahura Mazda, who made the Kine (the living creation), and the (embodied) Righteousness (which is incarnate in the clean), and the waters, and the wholesome plants, the stars, and the earth, and all (existing) objects that are good. (after meal:) Ashem vohu...(4). Yatha Ahu Vairyo...(2). To him splendor... Baj when answering the call of nature ------------------------------------- (Modi 374. This prayer is also known as "Pishab ni Baj".) May wrong actions be done away with a hundred-thousand times. Yatha Ahu Vairyo... (here perform the natural function) Ashem vohu...(3).
Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive, file zor/sbe23/ka.htm.
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