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Vahishta Ishti GATHA Song 17 Best Wish (9+1 stanzas -- Days 233rd to 242nd) 233rd Day Transliterated Text: vahishtâ îshtish srâvî zarathushtrahê Translated Text: The best wish of mine, Zarathushtra Spitama, (Gatha: Song 17.1) Summary Substance: Concluding his 16th Song with his loving veneration of all his companions, Zarathushtra expresses his joy at the success of his mission. It is on account of his earnest and righteous way of promoting his Divine Mission that he finds his best wish, the success of well establishing the Good Religion, come true. He earnestly ascribes his success to divine guidance. He feels happy and content in mind and body. He enjoys a good life for ever. He is alive. His very words are heard. He sees that those who rose against him, hurt him, made him leave his relatives and home town, placed obstacles in his way to the Vishtaspa's court, intrigued against him, have now learned the truth. They too have converted to the Good Religion. Pondering Points: Once Truth is explicated from a firm position, opposition dies, and success dawns.234th Day Transliterated Text: atcâ hôi scañtû mananghâ uxdhâish shyaothanâishcâ Translated Text: And now, let Kavi Vishtaspa, the Zarathushtrian Spitama, (Gatha: Song 17.2) Summary Substance: Satisfied with the progress made by the Good Religion, Zarathushtra now delegates his work to his close companions - Vishtaspa, Ferashaustra and most likely his cousin Maidhyoi-maha. He advises them to continue to pursue, with thoughts, words and deeds, and the religious knowledge and the proper ways of venerating Mazda, all with the sole aim of paving real roads for promoting the Good Religion, the religion God has guided Zarathushtra as a Benefactor. Pondering Points: Want the mission to continue, delegate it to worthy successors.235th Day Transliterated Text: têmcâ tû pourucistâ haêcat-aspânâ Translated Text: Pouruchista Haechataspa Spitama, (Gatha: Song 17.3) Summary Substance: A happy occasion is approaching. Zarathushtra's youngest daughter, Pouruchista, is getting married to a young man, Jamaspa Hvogova. She is blessed by her father. He wishes her a spouse who is unerring in thoughts, is right and righteous, and very godly. He advises her to be very wise, serenely, generous, and progressive in talking to him. To Zarathushtra, marriage is a sublime act of loving wisdom, and not one entered into through sheer emotions.Pondering Points: Seek a godly, wise and rightful spouse; be calm, mindful, open and loving in discussing your partnership in life.236th Day Transliterated Text: têm zî vê speredânî varânî ýâ fedhrôi vîdât Translated Text: (She replies:) Him I shall emulate and choose, (Gatha: Song 17.4) Summary Substance: Pouruchista assures her father that she will choose and emulate the right person with whom her marriage will prove to be an honor for her father, her husband, other family members, and all the neighbors around in the settlement. She vows to serve as a righteous woman among a righteous people. She will always be using her good mind, and for that, she prays to adhere and enjoy the Good Religion for the all time she lives.Pondering Points: A good marriage serves the community, earns honor, and promotes the Religion.237th Day Transliterated Text: sâxvênî vazyamnâbyô kainibyô mraomî Translated Text: (Zarathushtra says) These words I speak to the charming
brides, (Gatha: Song 17.5) Summary Substance: Zarathushtra now addresses all "charming" brides and bridegrooms. He wants them to fully understand what he advises them. He wants to them to lead a life of wisdom. And then, giving the best of equality, he prays that each of them win the other through righteous and true love in life. A happy life of love based on wisdom and truth is truly a rich reward.Pondering Points: Want a real happy married life, be true to your partner.238th Day Transliterated Text: ithâ î haithyâ narô athâ jênayô Translated Text: men and women, it is true that wrong is attractive and appears to have advantages. (Gatha: Song 17.6) Summary Substance: Zarathushtra gives a timely advice to young men and women joined in wedlock. It is true, he says, that wrong things have their own attraction. Some see quick profit in them. But the person engaged in a wrong act, knows what he/she is doing. His/her conscience troubles him/her, and feels that he/she has betrayed him/herself. Once a person is exposed of the wrong/s done, the consequences are bad. Reputation is lost. Happiness gone. The wrongful mentally suffers hard. It is no life.Pondering Points: Do not be fooled by wrong attraction. It is only a mirage.239th Day Transliterated Text: atcâ vê mîzhdem anghat ahyâ magahyâ Translated Text: But the reward of this Fellowship shall be yours (Gatha: Song 17.7) Summary Substance: If a couple emulate each other with good mind in righteous acts, their life is ideal. If either one of them is attracted by wrong, the unity could fall apart. Zarathushtra wants his companions to have all the units of society -- from house to world fellowship -- well united. A rapture in one, would have effect on others. He, therefore, advises the couple to remain united in weal or woe with all their heart. Unity dispels evil and strengthens Fellowship. Disunity is harmful. One who destroys unity, is no more a member. And one who abandons the Fellowship, will never feel happy. He/she would continue to feel the loss.Pondering Points: United we stand, disunited we fall.240th Day Transliterated Text: anâish â duzhvareshnanghô dafshnyâ hêñtû Translated Text: It is with such actions that evil doers (Gatha: Song 17.8) Summary Substance: The evil doers, the wrongful indulge in deceiving and ridiculing those they are against. They create uproar. Zarathushtra says that they should be let to shout and roar for themselves. Just ignore them. But the righteous should have such good rulers for themselves who would prevent war and bring peace to the settled people. The person who stops bloodshed, is the greatest hero. Zarathushtra places "no-killing" on his priority list.Pondering Points: Want to stop violence abroad and at home, choose good rulers. Want to enjoy peace and prosperity, elect good government.241st Day Transliterated Text: duzhvarenâish vaêshô râstî tôi narepîsh rajîsh Translated Text: Activity with evil doers yields to decrease in worth. (Gatha: Song 17.9) Summary Substance: Evil doers do not add any value to life. They are, driven by anger, the cause of all destructive actions. They destroy truth and commit crime. They bring death and destruction. They must be opposed to safeguard life and maintain freedom. Such a state is only achieved by choosing a good dominion in which every honest person is guaranteed a better living and no one is deprived of his/her right. Zarathushtra advocates an ideal society based on mental and material righteousness, freedom, happiness, and progress.Pondering Points: Creating a free world in which all are honest, sincere, working and enjoying good living and true life. Â Airyemâ Ishyâ
THE WORLD ZARATHUSHTRIAN FELLOWSHIP 242nd Day Transliterated Text: â airyêmâ ishyô rafedhrâi jañtû Translated Text: May the desired Fellowship come Summary Substance: Zarathushtra concludes his Sublime Songs with a solemn prayer. He prays for the promotion of the Universal Fellowship that would support Zarathushtrian men and women who live a life of good mind and all they look for is the reward that is nothing but righteousness. That is the reward God wishes to give every person.Pondering Points: Promote World Fellowship of the Good Religion and be rewarded with righteousness.Concluding Note: Zarathushtra came with a dynamic divine thought-provoking message. He persevered to spread it and finally succeeded in his mission. His mission: Forging a fresh Fellowship based on Good Thoughts, Good Words and Good Deeds. A Fellowship based on serving the Wise God and the world we live in. A Fellowship in which every Zarathushtrian man and woman conscientiously works to earn the choice of reward: Righteousness. Righteousness for the sake of the Best Righteousness alone.The world fellowship of men and women to bring peace and prosperity to every living being in the world is one of the main goals of the religion of Good Conscience. It is the fulfillment of Zarathushtra's mission, a mission aimed at perfecting the world in mind and matter, spirit and body toward immortality and union with God. It is the fellowship for which he rose, worked and succeeded. It is the universal union which is desired. It is a unity which would bring true happiness to every person in every family. It is the unity built by loving families. It is the outcome of true spiritual and physical democracy in which there would exist no oppressor and no oppressed. It is to tread the path of righteousness with a good and sound mind. Its reward: righteousness. While Yatha Ahu is the beginning of the Gathas, A Airyema Ishya is their end. One is the aim of creating a perfectly happy world and the other is the culmination of the aim. A Airyema Ishya is a prayer which wishes us a worthy world of unity, unity through the the Religion Good Conscience, unity through the Fellowship it establishes. It is a beautiful benediction with which Asho Zarathushtra concludes his inspired and inspiring songs -- The Gathas -- of divine love and sublime guidance. May we continue to follow the divine principles of wholeness and immortality by studying and practicing the thought-provoking message of the Gathas. And may we continue to be worthy members of the Zarathushtrian Fellowship in The Zarathushtrian Assembly.
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