Spenta Mainyu GATHA
Song 12
Progressive Mentality
(6 stanzas -- Days
170th to 175th)
170th Day
Transliterated Text:
speńtâ
mainyű vahishtâcâ mananghâ
hacâ ashât shyaothanâcâ vacanghâcâ
ahmâi dăn haurvâtâ ameretâtâ
mazdĺ xshathrâ ârmaitî ahurô.
Translated
Text:
To him who,
through progressive mentality, performs his duties best
in thoughts, words, and deeds in accordance with righteousness,
the Wise God grants wholeness and immortality
through sovereignty and serenity.
(Gathas:
Song 12.1)
Summary Substance:
The progressive mentality is the creative and promotive faculty endowed in
our mind by Mazda Ahura, the Super-Intellect Being.
It makes us renovate and promote our environment, our world. One,
who performs his duties in the best righteous manner, is granted
wholeness, perfection, immortality and eternity through his/her
sovereignty, independence, serenity and tranquility.
Pondering Points: Progressive
Mentality leads to Perfect Immortality.
171st Day
Transliterated Text:
ahyâ
manyęush spęnishtahyâ vahishtem
hizvâ uxdhâish vanghęush ęeânű mananghô
ârmatôish zastôibyâ shyaothanâ verezyat
ôyâ cistî, hvô patâ ashahyâ mazdĺ.
Translated Text:
He receives
the best from the most progressive mentality
who speaks words of good mind with his tongue,
and performs, with his own hands, deeds of serenity
because he has one perception:
the Wise One is the creator of righteousness.
(Gathas:
Song 12.2)
Summary Substance:
Here is a creative person who utilizes best his progressive mentality and
then translates good thoughts into words and deeds - deeds that give
serenity, provide tranquility. That
shows such a person's perception. Righteousness,
the Universal Law of Precision is the creation of Mazda.
One should always be right and precise in thoughts, words and
deeds.
Pondering Points:
Progressive mentality gives stability, stability helps perceive God and
comprehend the divine precision.
172nd Day
Transliterated Text:
ahyâ
manyęush tvęm ahî tâ speńtô
ýę ahmâi găm rânyô-skeretîm hęm-tashat
at hôi vâstrâi râmâ-dĺ ârmaitîm
hyat hęm vohű mazdâ hęme-frashtâ mananghâ.
Translated Text:
You are the
promoter of this mentality
which created the joy-bringing world for him,
and have granted peace and serenity for his settlement,
because, Wise One, he had consulted good mind.
(Gathas:
Song 12.3)
Summary Substance:
Mazda is the promoter of the progressive mentality, the creative faculty.
It fashions the joy-bringing world for human beings.
It gives them serene peace and prosperity in settlements.
All this happens only after humans consult their good mind.
Pondering Points:
Consult good mind, live in peace, progress and prosperity.
173rd Day
Transliterated Text:
ahmât
manyęush râreshyeińtî dregvańtô
mazdâ speńtât nôit ithâ ashâunô
kasęushcît nâ ashâunę kâthę anghat
isvâcît hăs paraosh akô dregvâitę.
Translated Text:
Wise One, it
is the wrongful, not the righteous,
who continue to keep away from this progressive mentality.
A person of very small means
can be kind to a righteous person,
and a person of great strength can be bad to the wrongful.
(Gathas: Song 12.4)
Summary Substance:
It is clear that the righteous consult the progressive mentality.
The wrongful do not.
As far as relations are concerned, a person of small
means can be helpful to a righteous person and so can a rich person.
Both can be bad for the wrongful. (note the poetic mastery:
Poor is good to the righteous and rich is bad to the
wrongful)
Pondering Points:
Poor or rich, use the progressive mentality and be righteous.
174th Day
Transliterated Text:
tâcâ
speńtâ mainyű mazdâ ahurâ
ashâunę côish ýâ-zhî cîcâ vahishtâ
hanare thwahmât zaoshât dregvĺ baxshaitî
ahyâ shyaothanâish akât âshyăs mananghô.
Translated Text:
Wise God, it
is through this progressive mentality
that You have promised the righteous what indeed is best.
But the wrongful shares little from Your love,
because he lives by the actions of his evil mind.
(Gathas:
Song 12.5)
Summary Substance:
The loving Wise God has endowed us with the progressive mentality.
If utilized well and righteously, it leads to a life that is the
best. But one who chooses to
think evil, simply cannot share the divine love.
He/she lives a wrong living.
Pondering Points: God
loves us, wants us to have the best of life.
Do we human beings?
175th Day
Transliterated Text:
tâ dĺ
speńtâ mainyű mazdâ ahurâ
âthrâ vanghâu vîdâitîm rânôibyâ
âramatôish debăzanghâ ashaxyâcâ
hâ zî pourűsh isheńtô vâurâitę.
Translated Text:
Wise God, You
grant good to both these parties
through the progressive mentality by means of fire
-- light, warmth and energy --
because with the growth of serenity and righteousness,
it shall convert many a seeker.
(Gathas:
Song 12.6)
Summary Substance:
The Divine Fire symbolizes the progressive mentality.
It means creativity and promotion through "light, warmth and
energy. It is "Fire'
that guides the righteous and the wrongful to light, warmth, energy - a
blissful life. The righteous
reach sooner. The wrongful
with painful delays. The
progressive mentality promotes stability and righteousness - a perfect
atmosphere to convert every wrongful who seeks to convert into a righteous
person.
Pondering
Points: Seek light, warmth, and energy to convert into a
righteous person.
