Plain text of The Gatha Spenta Mainyu · Yasna 4 (The Offering Takes Place)
1 These good thoughts, good words, and good deeds, these sacred plants, meat-offerings, and offerings, this bundle of twigs spread with sanctity, this flesh, and the two, Welfare, who guards the water, and Immortality, who guards the plants and wood, even the flesh, the sacred plant and its juice, the wood-billets and their perfume, this sacred lordship and chieftainship, and the timely prayer with blessing, and the heard recital of the Gathas, and the well-said sacred words, these all we offer, and make known with celebrations here.
2 Yea, these do we announce with celebrations, and we present them to God the Wise Lord, and in thanks for Obedience, the blessed, and for the bountiful gifts of God, and in remembrance of the souls of the righteous, and the light, the sign of the Wise Lord, the lofty Lord of the entire creation of the holy, for sacrifice, homage, devotion, and praise.
3 Yea, further, we present them to God for His bountiful gifts with an especial gift: these thoughts well thought, these words well spoken, these deeds well done, these sacred plants, feast-offerings, and offerings, and this bundle of twigs spread with sanctity, the flesh, and Welfare, who guards the water, and Immortality, who guards the plants and wood, even the flesh, the sacred plant and its second portion, the wood-billets, the perfume, and this their lordship and their sanctity, and this chieftainship, this prayer for blessing, the heard recital of the Gathas, and the well-said sacred words.
4 We offer with our celebrations, and we announce them in truth to God, whose bountiful gifts rule aright, and dispose of all aright, the ever-living, ever-helpful, whose angels dwell with the Good Mind, both the male and the female ones as well.
5 And we announce them in our celebrations as more propitious for this house, and for the furtherance of this house, of its herds, and of its men, of those now born, and of those yet to be born, the holy, yea, for the furtherance of that house of which these men are thus.
6 And we present these offerings in remembrance of the good souls of the righteous who are mighty and overwhelming, for the succour of the righteous.
7 Yea, we present these hereby to the Creator, God the Wise Lord, the radiant, the glorious, and the heavenly Spirit, for the sacrifice, homage, devotion, and praise of His bountiful gifts, all of them.
8 And we present these hereby to God, Lord of the ritual days, Lord of the morning, of the midday, and of the evening watch, the holy Lord of the ritual order, for sacrifice, homage, devotion, and for praise; and to God the Friend, of the wide pastures, and the thousand ears, and the myriad eyes, the All-hearing whose name is spoken in praise,
9 And to God, Lord of the noon watch and of the ordered seasons, the holy Lord of the ritual order, and to Righteousness the Best, and to the light, the sign of the Wise Lord,
10 And to God, Lord of the afternoon watch and the seasons of the herds, the holy Lord of the ritual order, and to that lofty Lord of the waters, and to the water God-made,
11 And to God, Lord of the evening, the life-furtherer, and of the seasons of the year, the holy Lord of the ritual order, and in remembrance of the souls of the righteous, and of the women who bring forth many sons, and the prosperous home-life which endures without reverse throughout the year, and force, well-shaped and stately, and the blow of victory which God gives, and the victorious ascendency which it secures, for their sacrifice, homage, their devotion, and their praise,
12 And to God, Lord of the dawn watch, with the seasons of settlement and home, and for Obedience, the blessed, smiting with the blow of victory and furthering the settlements, and to God the Most Just, and Rectitude, furthering the settlements and causing them to increase.
13 And these we announce and we present hereby to God, Lord of the months of the ritual order, of the new moon and the waning moon, and of the full moon which scatters night, the holy Lord of the ritual order, for their sacrifice, homage, their devotion, and their praise.
14 And these we announce hereby and we present to God, Lord of the yearly festivals, the mid-spring, the mid-summer, the season of the corn, the season of the herds, the mid-year, and the all-year gathering, and of the seasons, the holy Lord of the ritual order, for sacrifice, homage, devotion, and for praise.
15 And these we announce and we present hereby to God, Lord of all the three and thirty ordered times of the ritual, which approach the nearest around about our morning watch, and which are the festivals of Righteousness the Best, inculcated by God the Wise Lord, and uttered forth by Zarathushtra, for their sacrifice, homage, devotion, and praise.
16 And these we announce and we present to God, the Lord and the Friend, the lofty, and imperishable, and holy, in thanks for the stars, the creatures of the Bountiful Spirit, and the star Tishtrya, the radiant, the glorious, and the moon which contains the seed of cattle, and the resplendent sun of the swift horses, a sign of God the Wise Lord, and to God the Friend, the Lord of provinces, for their sacrifice, homage, their devotion and their praise; yea, these we present hereby to God the Wise Lord, who rules this day, and in remembrance of the righteous souls as they are remembered this month, for their sacrifice, homage, their devotion, and their praise.
17 And these we announce hereby in thanks to God for the light, the sign of the Wise Lord, and for all lights, for His sacrifice, homage, devotion, and praise, and to the good waters for the sacrifice, homage, devotion, and praise of all the waters God-made, and for all the plants which God made,
18 And for the bountiful sacred word, the holy, the effective, the law against the powers of evil, the statute of Zarathushtra, and for the long descent of the good religion of the worshippers of God.
19 And these we announce and we present hereby to God, in thanks for Mount Ushi-darena, God-made, brilliant with sanctity, and for all the mountains shining with their holiness, abundantly luminous, and God-made, and for the kingly glory, the unconsumed glory God-made, and for the good blessedness, and the good religious knowledge, and the good rectitude, and the good persisting zeal, and the glory and the benefit which God created.
20 And these we offer and present in thanks for the pious and good blessing of the pious, and for the swift and dreadful warning of wisdom.
21 And in thanks for these places, pastures, and dwellings with their springs of water, their rivers, for the lands and the plants, for this earth and yon heaven, for the holy wind, for the stars, moon, and sun, for the stars that run from the beginning, ordained, and for all the holy creatures of the Bountiful Spirit, male and female, ruling as they do the ritual order.
22 And these we announce and we present hereby to God, the lofty Lord who is Righteousness, the ritual righteousness itself, the Lord of the days, the months, the years, and the seasons which order the ritual at the time of the morning watch, and for their sacrifice, homage, their devotion and their praise.
23 Yea, these we announce and we present in thanks for Obedience, the blessed and mighty, whose word is the sacred word, of the daring spear, the lordly one, and in remembrance of the righteous Zarathushtra Spitama, the saint.
And these we announce and we present to God in thanks for the light, the sign of the Wise Lord, for His sacrifice, homage, devotion, and praise.
24 And these we announce and we present in remembrance of the souls of the righteous, the mighty and overwhelming, of the righteous of the ancient lore, and of the next of kin.
25 And these we announce and we present hereby to God, with all His good angels, earthly and heavenly, who are set to serve Him, for sacrifice, homage, devotion, and for praise, because of Righteousness the Best.
We give thanks for the bountiful gifts of God, which rule aright and dispose of all aright.
26 And that one among beings whose superior service in the sacrifice God the Wise Lord knows, from the righteousness which he maintains, and those of all female beings whose higher service is thus likewise known; yea, all male and female beings who are such, do we honour!