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Today, it is a pleasure to present selections from the “Ormazd Yast,” which is a hymn of praise to Ahura Mazda. ORMAZD YAST “Zarathustra asked Ahura Mazda: ‘O Ahura Mazda, most beneficent Spirit, Maker of the material world, Thou Holy One! What of the Holy Word is the strongest? What is the most victorious? What is the most glorious? What is the most effective? What is the most fiend-smiting? What is the best-healing? What destroys best the malice of Daêvas and Men? What makes the material world best come to the fulfilment of its wishes? What frees the material world best from the anxieties of the heart?’ Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Our Name, O Spitama Zarathustra! who are the Amesha-Spentas, that is the strongest part of the Holy Word; that is the most victorious; that is the most glorious; that is the most effective; That is the most fiend-smiting; that is the best-healing; that destroys best the malice of Daêvas and Men; that makes the material world best come to the fulfilment of its wishes; that frees the material world best from the anxieties of the heart.’ Then Zarathustra said: ‘Reveal unto me that name of Thine, O Ahura Mazda! that is the greatest, the best, the fairest, the most effective, the most fiend-smiting, the best-healing, that destroys best the malice of Daêvas and Men; That I may afflict all Daêvas and Men; that I may afflict all Yâtus and Pairikas; that neither Daêvas nor Men may be able to afflict me; neither Yâtus nor Pairikas.’ Ahura Mazda replied unto Him: ‘ […] My name is Ahura (the Lord). My name is Mazda (the all-knowing). My name is the Holy; my name is the most Holy. My name is the Glorious; my name is the most Glorious. […] And he who in this material world, O Spitama Zarathustra! shall recite and pronounce those names of mine either by day or by night; He who shall pronounce them, when he rises up or when he lays him down; when he lays him down or when he rises up; when he binds on the sacred girdle or when he unbinds the sacred girdle; when he goes out of his dwelling-place, or when he goes out of his town, or when he goes out of his country and comes into another country; That man, neither in that day nor in that night, shall be wounded by the weapons of the foe who rushes Aêshma-like and is Drug-minded; not the knife, not the cross-bow, not the arrow, not the sword, not the club, not the sling-stone shall reach and wound him. But those names shall come in to keep him from behind and to keep him in front, from the Drug unseen, from the female Varenya fiend, from the evil-doer bent on mischief, and from that fiend who is all death, Angra Mainyu. It will be as if there were a thousand men watching over one man.”
