Song 7.12 (Yasna 34.12)
Transliterated Text:
kat tôi râzarê kat vashî kat vâ stûtô kat vâ ýasnahyâ srûidyâi mazdâ frâvaocâ yâ vîdâyât ashîsh râshnãm sîshâ nå ashâ pathô vanghêush hvaêtêñg mananghô.
Translated Text:
What is Your guidance and what is Your wish? Is it for praise, or is it for veneration? Wise One, declare it while we listen, and the reward for following Your guidance. Show us, through righteousness, the paths to self-reliance of good mind.
Summary Substance:
Zarathushtra asks and then supplies the subtle answer: The paths leading through righteous to the goal—self-reliance that enjoys good mind. This is what the guidance is for, what the Wise One wishes. God does not want praise and veneration. All Mazda wishes is that we are guided to our goal. It is us who praise and venerate God out of love.
Pondering Point:
“Ahura Mazda desires for us to be self-reliant and empowered by our good minds.”