Sacred Text · The Avesta

The renovation of the world

Ahunavaiti Gatha · Yasna 30.9 · L. H. Mills

“And may we be such as those who bring on this great renovation, and make this world progressive, (till its perfection shall have been reached). (As) the Ahuras of Mazda (even) may we be; (yea, like Thyself), in helpful readiness to meet (Thy people), presenting (benefits) in union with the Righteous Order. For there will our thoughts be (tending) where true wisdom shall abide in her home.”
Yasna 30.9 (Ahunavaiti Gatha) · L. H. Mills, SBE XXXI

Translation: Lawrence H. Mills (1887), The Zend-Avesta, Part III (The Yasna, Visparad, Afrinagan, Gahs and Miscellaneous Fragments), Sacred Books of the East vol. XXXI, public domain, via the Internet Archive (item zendavesta03darm). Reproduced in context; Mills’ round and square brackets are his own clarifying insertions, and embedded footnote marks in the scanned text were removed. Chapter and verse follow the standard Yasna numbering.

Christian comparison

How this connects to Jesus

Zarathushtra longs to be among those who bring on the great renovation, the Frashokereti, and make the world progress until its perfection is reached. Christians share this hope of a world made new and deathless: behold, I am making all things new (Revelation 21:5), and a resurrection when the last enemy, death, is destroyed (1 Corinthians 15:26). Where the Gathas await the renovation, the Gospel says it has already begun in the risen Christ, the firstfruits of the new creation.

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