Plain text of The Gatha Spenta Mainyu · Yasna LV
The Worship of the Gathas as Concluded, and that of the Staota Yesnya as Beginning.
1 We present hereby and we make known, as our offering to the bountiful Gathas which rule as the leading chants within the appointed times and seasons of worship, all our landed riches, and our persons, together with our very bones and tissues, our forms and forces, our consciousness, and our soul.
2 That which the Gathas may be to us, which are our guardians and defenders, and our spiritual food, yea, which may be to our souls both food and clothing, such are these Gathas to us, guardians, and defenders, and spiritual food, even such they are, both food and clothing to the soul.
And may they be to us, for this our offering, abundant givers of rewards, and just and righteous ones, for the world beyond the present, after the parting of our consciousness and body. 3. And may these Praises of the Offering come forth, and appear for us with power and victorious assault, with health and healing, with progress, and with growth, with preparation and protection, with beneficence and sanctity, and abounding with gifts toward him who can understand; yea, let them appear with free liberality to the enlightened, let them appear as the Wise Lord, the most beneficent, has produced them, He the one who is victorious when He smites, and who helps the settlements advance, for the protection and the guarding of the religious order of the settlements which are now being furthered, and of those which shall bring salvation to us, and for the protection of the entire creation of the holy and the clean.
4 And mayest Thou, O Lord, grant to every holy man who comes with this prayer for a blessing, and endeavouring to help himself, according to his good thoughts, and words, and deeds.
5 We are therefore honouring both the divine Righteousness and the Good Mind, and the bountiful Gathas, that rule as the leading chants within the times and the seasons of the holy order of worship.
6 And we honour the Praises of the Yasna which were the production of the ancient world, those which are now recollected and put in use, those which are now learned and taught, those which are being held in mind and so repeated, those remembered and recited, and those spoken in worship, and thus the ones which further the world through grace in its advance.
And we honour the parts of the Praises of the Yasna, and their recitation as it is heard, even their memorised recital, and their chanting, and their offering as complete.