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COMPLETE SEQUENCE
Full English translation & ritual order
Section 1
1. Who protects me?
What protector have You appointed for me, O Mazda, when the hostility of the deceitful surrounds me? Who but Your Fire and Good Mind—through whose work I sustain the world of Asha? Reveal Your teaching to me as the rule of life.
Section 2
2. Who defends the teaching?
Who is the victorious one who will protect Your teaching? Make clear the guide for both worlds. May Sraosha come with Good Mind and help whomsoever You will, O Mazda.
Section 3
3. Drive away the Druj
Protect us from hatred, O Mazda, together with beneficent Armaiti. Let the fiendish Druj, its brood, its works, and its world perish and withdraw. Let deceit never again bring death into the living world of Asha. Homage joined with devotion and the offering of life.
READABLE ENGLISH
Natural English
When fear and deception press in, I seek protection not only as escape from danger but as the strength to preserve Asha, listen to truth, and act with Good Mind.
EFIRETEMPLE COMMENTARY
The Asha understanding
The prayer’s shield is ethical and spiritual: Fire illuminates, Good Mind discerns, Sraosha listens, Armaiti steadies, and Asha gives the pattern of right action.
TECHNICAL NOTE
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Complete English study rendering of the traditional Kem Na Mazda sequence. It combines passages drawn from the Gathic and later liturgical tradition.
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