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CHAPTER III, 10-19.
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ously rushing unto true propitiation from the heart, and keeping selfishness away from the desires; the lodgment of Srôsh in the words is owing to him who is intelligent being a true speaker, and him who is unintelligent being a listener to what is true and to the high-priests; and the lodgment of Ard in the actions is declared to be owing to promoting that which is known as goodness, and abstaining from that which one does not know. 15. And these three benefits which have been recited are sent down (farôstako) in two ways that the ancients have mentioned, which are that deliberately taken and that they should deliberately leave, whose means are wisdom and proper exertion.
16. And his (man's) high-priest is he whose instigation is to keep him truly in accordance with the revelation (dinô) of the sacred beings, and is the origin of his pure meditation which is truly through goodness like Vohûman's. 17. As the religious of the ancients have religiously said, that of him who keeps the goodness of Vohuman lodging in the thoughts the true way is then that of the good spirit. 18. The Mazda-worshipper understands the will of the creator in the true way, and grows and acquires by performing what is desirable for the creator, which obtains the benefit of the renovation.
19. A more concise reply is this, that a righteous man is the creature by whom is accepted that occupation which is provided for him, and is fully
'The lodgments of the three angels.
Meaning, probably, the deliberate adoption of good conduct and relinquishment of evil (compare Chap. VII, 7).
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