Song 12.1 (Yasna 47.1)
To him who, through progressive mentality, performs his duties best in thoughts, words, and deeds in accordance with righteousness, the Wise Lord grants wholeness and immortality through sovereignty and serenity.
The progressive mentality is the creative and promotive faculty endowed in our mind by Mazda Ahura, the Super-Intellect Being. It makes us renovate and promote our environment, our world. One, who performs his duties in the best righteous manner, is granted wholeness, perfection, immortality, and eternity through their sovereignty, independence, serenity and tranquility.
The Progressive Mentality (Spenta Mainyu - Holy Spirit) leads to Perfection and Immortality.
Song 12.2 (Yasna 47.2)
He receives the best from the most progressive mentality who speaks words of good mind with his tongue, and performs, with his own hands, deeds of serenity because he has one perception: the Wise One is the creator of righteousness.
Here is a creative person who utilizes best his progressive mentality and then translates good thoughts into words and deeds—deeds that provide serenity and bestow tranquility. Righteousness, the Universal Law of Precision is the creation of Wisdom. One should always be right and precise in thoughts, words, and deeds.
The Progressive Mentality provides us the substance and capability to perceive God and comprehend the divine precision in existence.
Song 12.3 (Yasna 47.3)
You are the promoter of this mentality which created the joy-bringing world for him, and have granted peace and serenity for his settlement, because, Wise One, he had consulted good mind.
Wisdom is the promoter of the progressive mentality, the creative faculty. It fashions the joy-bringing world for human beings whom it gives serene peace and prosperity within settlements. All this happens only after humans consult their good mind.
The fundamental Progressive Mentality created our joy-bringing world and will drive it to perfection.
Song 12.4 (Yasna 47.4)
Wise One, it is the wrongful, not the righteous, who continue to keep away from this progressive mentality. A person of very small means can be kind to a righteous person, and a person of great strength can be bad to the wrongful.
It is clear that the righteous must consult the progressive mentality. The wrongful do not. As far as relations are concerned, a person of small means can be helpful to a righteous person and so can a rich person. Both can be bad for the wrongful. (note the poetic mastery: Poor is good to the righteous and rich is bad to the wrongful.)
As long as we follow the path of righteousness, we will benefit from the progressive mentality, regardless of our material wealth.
Song 12.5 (Yasna 47.5)
Wise Lord, it is through this progressive mentality that You have promised the righteous what indeed is best. But the wrongful shares little from Your love, because he lives by the actions of his evil mind.
The loving Wise God has endowed us with the progressive mentality. If utilized well and righteously, it leads to a life that is the best, but one who chooses to think evil, simply cannot continuously share the divine love. They have a wrong way of living.
The Progressive Mentality provides the best to the righteous, yet the deceitful care little for that which is truly best.
Song 12.6 (Yasna 47.6)
Wise Lord, You grant good to both these parties through the progressive mentality by means of fire—light, warmth and energy— because with the growth of serenity and righteousness, it shall convert many a seeker.
The Divine Fire symbolizes the progressive mentality. It means creativity and promotion through “light, warmth and energy.” It is the Fire that guides the righteous and the wrongful to light, warmth, energy—a blissful life. The righteous reach it sooner, the wrongful with painful delays. The progressive mentality promotes stability and righteousness—a perfect atmosphere to convert every wrongful who seeks to convert into a righteous person.
Seek the light of knowledge and truth so that you may become more righteous through the Progressive Mentality.
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