Ahura Mazda as Presented in Zoroastrianism

  July 31, 2021   Read time 2 min
Ahura Mazda as Presented in Zoroastrianism
From one of the basic daily prayers of Zoroastrianism: Ahuramazda Khodae, Ahreman. Awadashan, dur awazdashtar zad shekashteh bad! Ahreman, devan, darujan, jaduan, darvandan, kikan, karafan, sastaran, gunehgaran, ashmogam, darvandan, dushmana frian Zad shekashteh bad; dush-padshahan awadashan bad . . .

Ahuramazda Kohdae, az hama gunah patet pashemanum, az harvastin dushmata, duzukhta, duzhvarshta, mem pa geti manid oem goft, oem kard, oem jast, oem bun bud ested. Az an gunah, manashni, gavashni, kunashni, tani ravani, geti minoani, okhe awaksh pasheman pa se gavashni pa patet hom. Khshnaothra Ahurae Mazdao! Taroidite Anghrahe Mainyeush! Haithya varshtam huat vasna ferashotemem. Staomi Ashem.

Ahura Mazda is the self-created master. May the evil mind be vanquished and removed far from us. May it be frustrated and defeated. May the evil mentality, the wicked persons, the liars, the deceivers, those who have left the right path, the willfully blind, the willfully deaf, the tyrants, the sinners, the distorters of truth, the persons who have strayed from the path of God, the evil minded, may they all be frustrated and may the evil minded be defeated and removed far from us . . . Ahura Mazda is our lord. From all my sins I repent. I turn back from every evil thought, every evil word, and every evil deed, which in this world I may have thought, I may have uttered, I may have committed, or which in any way proceeded from me or originated from me. From all such sins of thoughts, words, and deeds, pertaining either to my body or my soul, pertaining either to this world or the spiritual world, I do turn back having conscientiously sought forgiveness by expressing repentance three times over for it. The glory be unto Ahura Mazda! Let there be contempt for the evil mind! Such is the uppermost wish of those who are virtuous in their actions. I praise Truth

All Zoroastrians work through their good deeds and through living moral and ethical lives to a time when good will overcome evil. This is called Frashogard or Frashokereti, which means “renewal” or “freshening.” The physical and spiritual worlds will be united in a perfect stage of the world before creation of the physical world, called Menog. All creation will exist in this stage forever in a state of perfection.

Zarathustra gave humanity the dual principles of Truth and the Lie—Spenta Mainyu and Angra Mainyu, or Ahriman. He set up the battle between good and evil, but he did not see them as equal. Ahriman is powerful, but in the end Ahura Mazda will prevail. Eventually people will give their lives to following his path, the path of Asha. Completeness and Immortality go together. When a Zoroastrian has achieved righteousness and completeness in this life he or she may hope to achieve Haurvatat, or Wholeness, and Ameratat, or Immortality.


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