Plain text of The Gathas · Yasna 32 (continued)
9 An evil teacher, he will destroy our doctrines, and by his teachings he will pervert the true understanding of life, seizing away from me my riches, the choice and real wealth of the Good Mind. To Thee, O God, the Wise Lord, and to Righteousness, am I therefore crying with the voice of my spirit's need!
10 Aye, this man will destroy my doctrines, for he blasphemes the highest of creatures that live or are made. He declares that the sacred Kine and the Sun are the worst of things which eye can see; and he will offer the gifts of the wicked to their false gods. And at the last he will parch our meadows with drought, and will hurl his mace at Thy saint who may fall before his arms.
11 Yea, these will destroy my life, for they consult with the great ones of the wicked. And they are seizing away the gifts of inherited treasures from both the household-lord and the house-wife; wretched men that they are, and they will fiercely wound my folk, who are moved by the better mind of the holy.
12 But God will speak His rebuke. As to those doctrines which such men may be basely delivering, repelled by the holiest action and galled by its sacred truth, God hath said: Evil are they! Yea, unto these He hath said it, who have slain the Kine's life by a blessing and have cursed her while they offered to help her; men by whom the Grehmas are loved above Righteousness, and the Karpans, and the Throne of those who have wished for Satan, the spirit of the lie, as their lord and friend.
13 And the Grehma will seek for these things by means of his evil kingdom, in the abode of Hell, the Worst Mind, the destroyers of life, who, O Wise Lord, will bewail with glad but envious wish the message of Thy prophet. But he will not abate his vengeance; he will hold them afar from the sight of the truth!
14 His is Grehma; aye, his! And to oppose Thee he will establish the Kavis and their scheming plans. Their deeds of power are but deceits, since they have come as an aid to the wicked, and since he has been falsely said to be set to conquer the Kine, he who shall kindle that very help of grace which removes our death afar, and lightens Thy saving light.
15 And therefore will I drive from hence the disciples of the Karpans and the Kavis. And after these have thus been driven away, then these my princely and aiding saints, whom they no longer render rulers at will over life, shall be borne at last by Wholeness and Immortality, the two gifts of God, to the home of Thy Good Mind in the Garden!
16 And this entire reward of the righteous is from that Best One who teaches in the wide mental light of the pious, ruling as supreme, O Wise Lord, whose are my woes and my doubtings; they lie in His power to heal, when I shall make men, my prophets, to be sought out against the harm of the wicked. And this I shall do by the word of my mouth, to defend and avenge my saints!