Transliterated Text:

ithâ î haithyâ narô athâ jênayô
drûjô hacâ râthemô ýême spashuthâ frâidîm
drûjô âyesê hôish pithâ tanvô parâ
vayû-beredubyô dush-xvarethêm
nãsat xvâthrem dregvôdebyô dêjît-aretaêibyô
anâish â manahîm ahûm mereñgeduyê.

Translated Text:

Men and women, it is true that
wrong is attractive and appears to have advantages.
But it alienates one away from oneself.
It ends in woefulness and bad reputation.
It destroys happiness for the wrongful. It defiles truths.
With these, you shall be destroying your mental life.

Commentary:

Zarathushtra gives timely advice to the young men and women joined in wedlock. It is true, he says, that wrong things have their own attraction. Some see quick profit in them, but the person engaged in a wrong act, knows what they are doing. Their conscience troubles them and feels that they have betrayed themselves. Once a person is exposed of the wrongs done, the consequences are bad, reputation is lost, and happiness gone. The wrongful mentally suffers hard; it is no life.

Pondering Point:

“Men and women both should resist the allure of the Lie, as it treating it as an advantage only destroys one’s mental existence.”

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