Sacred Laws of Aryas

SR No.: 007687
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gorge Buhler
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1897
Total Pages: 1979
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 36 MB

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4 (9). `He wields a wrong Astra mairya' and he has not girded his loins with the Religion ; when he says, “I am an Åthravan," he lies; do not call him an Athravan, O holy Zarathustra!' thus said Ahura Mazda.
5 (11). “He who sleeps on throughout the night, neither performing the Yasna nor chanting the hymns, worshipping neither by word nor by deed, neither learning nor teaching, with a longing for (everlasting) life, he lies when he says, “I am an Athravan," do not call him an Athravan, O holy Zarathustra !' thus said Ahura Mazda.
6 (14). "Him thou shalt call an Åthravan, O holy Zarathustra ! who throughout the night sits up and demands of the holy Wisdom, which makes man free from anxiety, and wide of heart, and easy of conscience at the head of the Kinvat bridges, and which makes him reach that world, that holy world, that excellent world of Paradise.
7 (18). (Therefore) demand of me, thou upright one! of me, who am the Maker, the most beneficent of all beings, the best knowing, the most pleased in answering what is asked of me; demand of me, that thou mayst be the better, that thou mayst be the happier.
8 (21). Zarathustra asked Ahura Mazda : 'O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! What is it that brings in the unseen power of Death ?'
1 The astra (Aspahê-astra) with which the priest, as a Sraoshavarez, chastises the guilty.
· That is to say, studies the law and learns from those who know it.
• See Farg. XIX, 30. 'It gives him a stout heart, when standing before the Kinvat bridge' (Comm.)
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