Gathas & Translation
Gathas - a Glance
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Supplements I
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Translated Text:

Summary Substance: If one with guidance of the progressive mentality understand the delusions fed to him about fanciful gods by exploiters and replace wrong with righteousness, gets to the core of Truth. He truly comprehends the Being and turns to Ahura to glorify.

Pondering Points: Eliminate delusions, conquer wrong, win righteousness, gain wisdom, and glorify God.

Summary Substance: Zarathushtra again poetically puts questions which are but their own answers. God knows best. Therefore, he wants to know the result of efforts put by him and his companions to eradicate wrong. Will they be successful? Of course, because the struggle will bring good life for mankind.

Pondering Points: Eliminate wrong, see what life means!

Transliterated Text:

Summary Substance: God teaches through the Universal Law of Righteousness. When learned, they are the best. They make a person learned. Such a person becomes godlike -- wise and progressive. Using his/her good mind, he/she can explore profound knowledge -- yet to be discovered.

Pondering Points: Study the Universal Law, use good mind, and discover new science.

Summary Substance: It is how one sets his mind. If one thinks good and improves it, or, on the other hand, thinks bad and worsens in thoughts, he moulds his/her conscience on the words and deeds that ensue. He follows what he has chosen. It becomes his desire. Whatever the case, the consequences of two opposite choices would also be different. This is what wisdom, endowed by Mazda, advises.

Pondering Points: Wisdom says: Do good, get better, do bad, get worse.

Summary Substance: Zarathushtra wishes a good government and prays that an evil government may not rule over us. Let us note that the root word for "to rule" literally means to "to settle in peace." A good government should provide peace and stability based on wisdom. It should provide health and happiness. And it should promote the living world of ours. Such a good government of good settlement on the good earth is the best in life. All should work for it.

Pondering Points: Wise and stable government gives health, happiness, and progress.

Summary Substance: Continuing his subject of "a good government of good settlement on the good earth is the best in life," Zarathushtra reminds us: The living world is our good dwelling. It gives us, through our good thinking, two gifts - endurance and strength - to promote it further. One of the Divine Principles of Life stands for increasing prosperity through righteousness. Let us work for it.

Pondering Points: The Earth is our Home. With endurance and energy, let us make it ever-more prosperous.

Summary Substance: Zarathushtra is addressing his companions. He wants them to curb anger and check violence, two main causes of harm and injury, war and bloodshed in the living world. It is through elimination of these two basic wrongs that people can strengthen good mind through adhering to the Universal Law of Righteousness. They ought to because they are being led by a progressive person - Zarathushtra - to where one actually feels the divine presence and dwells in the divine abode.

Pondering Points: Check violence, be righteous, promote good mind, and enjoy the divine presence.

Summary Substance: Zarathushtra begins, from this stanza, asking questions that highlight his promoting program. He looks at the Divine Power governing the world. He looks at the reward his people will get by serving the world. He envisages the rightful results of the creative and promoting actions of the dedicated who are led by the progressive mentality.

Pondering Points: With trust in divine sovereignty and led by progressive mentality, mankind can plan and create a new world, an ideal life.

Summary Substance: Zarathushtra is measuring his power through his righteous plan to face the dangerous threats made to his mission. He wants his good mind to clearly reveal the plan so that he precisely knows how to act to emerge successful.

Pondering Points: Plan made through good thinking and right acting succeeds.

Summary Substance: The answering questions show that Zarathushtra wants humanity to peacefully settle down and create good settlements. He wants total ban on the "haoma" drink which is responsible for violence. It is the intoxicant, very possibly "marijuana" or "hashish" (Cannabis sativa), that infuriated addicted priests and princes to lose their wisdom and be cruel to people. He wants a clean society, free from drugs and violence.

Pondering Points: No drugs, no violence! All enjoy peace on earth.

Summary Substance: Plan for an ideal world continues with the answering questions. Serenity, stability, righteousness and precision create peaceful habitats which enjoy sovereignty. Peace must replace the violence caused by the wrongful. All these can be achieved through using good mind and the wisdom it imparts.

Pondering Points: Violence must give way to peace, stability and sovereignty.

Summary Substance: The wise who consult good mind and base their actions on righteousness and in accordance with Divine teaching, benefit and promote their countries. It is they who stop violence and introduce peace.

Pondering Points: Wise actions based on Divine teachings bring peace and prosperity.