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Day 3: Ashem
vashishtem yazamaide.
We revere
the Best Truth or Righteousness
THEME:
Truth - Order
May
Ardibehest (Best Truth) bless you with good speech,
Further Reading:
Ardibehest Ameshaspand urged that fire should be revered.
Yasna XVII mentions that Fire, the Son of Ahura Mazda, exists in different forms:
- Vohu-fryāna: the fire of life, as present in the body of man and animal
- Urvāzista: the fire of life, as present in trees and plants
- Vāzista: the fire, as present in the clouds; lightning
- Spenista: the fire, as it is being used on earth
- The Fire, which is Lord of the House burning in each homeSIROZAH VI - VI:
ARDIBEHEST
We
sacrifice unto
ASHA-Vahista,
the 
fairest
Ahura.
And
also we
sacrifice unto
the good Saoka*,
whose eyes
are ever filled with Love, and who was
made by
Mazda and
is Holy.
*Saoka: the Yazad of the Good Eye, presiding over good things: such as profit, goodness, happiness and welfare.