Sunrise to noon—the watch of beginning and work
The full morning watch, consecrating the active part of the day to Mithra, right action, health, wholeness, and Asha.
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With satisfaction for Ahura Mazda, recite Ashem Vohu three times and profess the Mazdayasnian, Zoroastrian faith. Honor Hāvan, Savanghi, and Visya as righteous masters of this watch, for worship, praise, satisfaction, and glorification.
Honor Mithra of wide pastures—watchful with a thousand ears and ten thousand eyes—and Raman Khvastra, guardian of good dwelling and peaceful pasture.
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 Hāvan, Haurvatat (wholeness), Ameretat (undying life), the Ahuric question and teaching, and the mighty Yasna Haptanghaiti.
Honor Savanghi and Visya, the Airyema Ishyo prayer, and the five Gathas as powerful, healing, hostility-overcoming Manthras.
Honor Mithra, Raman Khvastra, and the guardians of truthful relationship, alertness, and a well-ordered world.
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.
Morning prayer is not an escape from labor. It is the consecration of labor: work becomes worship when it is truthful, beneficial, and disciplined.
Complete English study sequence of the Hāvan Gāh. The displayed transliteration is its identifying dedication; repeated formulas are linked to their full prayer pages.
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