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Plain text of The Gatha Spenta Mainyu · Yasna 47

1 And to this man, His chosen saint, God, the Wise Lord, will give both the two greatest gifts, His Universal Weal and Immortality, by means of His bountiful spirit, and with His Best Mind, from the desire to maintain His righteous moral Order in word and deed, and by the strength and wisdom of His Sovereign Power, established in Piety among His folk.

2 Aye, that blessedness, which is the best creation of this most bounteous spirit, God, the Wise Lord, will bring forth in action, with words from the mouth and tongue of His Good Mind within His seers, and by the two hands of Piety as she lives within the soul. And by such wise beneficence is He the Source of the righteous Order within our worship and our lives.

3 And Thou art therein, O Wise Lord, the bountiful One who appertains to, and who possesses, that most bounteous spirit, in that Thou art He who for this man, in whom this spirit works, hath made the joy-creating Kine. And as to her, for her, as joyful meadows of her peace, wilt Thou bestow Thy Piety, who is our piety as earth considered, since he for her hath taken counsel with Thy Good Mind, Lord!

4 But this Thy bounteous spirit doth not alone bestow rewards and blessings on the good. The wicked, foemen of the Faith, are harmed, and from the motives which move that bounteous spirit of Thine own, O Wise One, but not thus the saints. And yet the ruler's pride would ever slight the righteous. The feeble man alone stands free to give in kindly obligation to Thy saint, but having wealth and ruling power, the evil man is at the service of the wicked, and for much.

5 But Thou wilt give these gifts, and through Thy most blessed and most bounteous spirit, O God, the Wise Lord, to this Thy holy saint, for they are whatsoever is the best; but far from Thy love the wicked has his portion, abiding in the actions of the Evil Mind.

6 Aye, these things wilt Thou give to him, O Thou God, the Wise Lord, and through Thy bounteous spirit, and by Thy fire, Thy sign, as in a good bestowal to the two striving throngs, through the prosperous increase of our Piety and of the Righteous ritual and moral Truth; for that Piety of ours, instructing, doth teach the many coming ones who seek her face!