Sunset to midnight—the watch of gathering and protection
The full evening watch honoring Fravashis, the household, community roles, good women and men, Fire, water, plants, and spiritual protection.
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With satisfaction for Ahura Mazda, recite Ashem Vohu three times and profess the Mazdayasnian, Zoroastrian faith. Honor Aiwisrūthrim and Aibigaya, the life-furthering evening watch, together with the powers that support all good life and Zarathushtrian guidance.
Honor the Fravashis, the women who sustain heroic life, the prosperity of the seasons, strength, Verethraghna, and triumph over destructive force.
We honor Ahura Mazda, Zarathushtra, the Fravashi of Zarathushtra, and the righteous Amesha Spentas.
We honor the good, powerful, beneficent Fravashis in the spiritual and material worlds, and the worthy masters and helpers of Asha who accomplish their responsibilities.
Honor Aiwisrūthrim, Fire, the ritual implements, the waters, plants, and the life-principle of the creation.
Honor the life-furthering power, Zarathushtra, sacred speech, the soul of the living creation, and the highest religious guide.
Honor priest, warrior, farmer, household, village, province, country, the young person of good thought, word, and deed, and righteous women and men whose activity advances creation through Asha.
We honor the Fire of Ahura Mazda, the waters, the plants, the spiritual helpers, the souls and Fravashis of the righteous, all teachings of Zarathushtra, and every good deed already done or still to be done.
Among living beings, Ahura Mazda knows—through Asha—who is worthy of reverence. We honor those righteous ones, women and men.
May splendor, health, endurance, abundant well-being, worthy descendants, a long life, and the luminous best existence of the righteous be granted. May healing, courage, truthful action, and the strength of the beneficent creation come. May the merit of all good people spread through the seven regions. Thus may it be as I pray.
The evening prayer expands beyond individual spirituality. Asha is preserved through households, professions, generations, women and men, and the networks that sustain life.
Complete English study sequence of the Aiwisrūthrim Gāh.
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