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CHAPTER LXXXIII, 1-Lxxxv, 2.
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me, and has assailed me; of these actions I am in renunciation?'
2. Afterwards one is to lie down; and every time that one acts in the manner that I have mentioned, and wears the sacred thread-girdle on the waistwhile he is equally sharing the whole of the good works which they are performing in all the world during that night, and he is of similar merit-every single breath that he inhales and exhales is a good work of a weight of three dirhams. 3. And when he turns from side to side he should, in like manner, recite one Ashem-vohů s.
CHAPTER LXXXV. 1. The eighty-fifth subject is this, that, in every matter that comes forward, it is necessary to enquire of the wise and relations, so as to have their advice, and not to transact any business according to one's own idea and opinion.
2. For it is declared in revelation, that the sacred being, the good and propitious, spoke to Zaratust thus: 'As to every business that thou wishest to transact, do thou receive wisdom and knowledge at one place with the wise who reply, and cast away what is unconsidered, so that Aharman may not reach it midway, and injury (halal) may not occur to that business.'
1 This is the general form of a Patit or renunciation of sin. * B29 omits these six words.
* See Chap. LXXX, 8. This chapter nearly corresponds to Sls. X, 24.
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