The Old Ways

Zoroastrian · The Visperad · 17 of 22

VISPERAD 18.

tr. L. H. Mills, Sacred Books of the East vol. 31 (American Edition, 1898)

1. And we strive after the good thoughts, words, and deeds inculcated in the Yasna Haptanghaiti. A blessing is the Right (called) the Best, (there is) weal; (there is) weal for this (man) when toward Righteousness Best (there is) right.

1. We worship Ahura Mazda with the ushta. And we worship the Amesha Spenta with the ushta, and the holy man, the saint. And we worship the prior world of the holy (and of the clean) with an ushta, and the state of weal and salvation for the holy man (the saint). 2. And we worship that life-long state of blessedness (for the holy) which is the evil man's calamity; yea, we worship his eternal salvation, and with the salvation prayer. And we sacrifice to every saint who exists, who is now coming into existence, and who shall exist in future.