Though Invisible Thyself, Thou Art All-Seeing, Ahura Mazda

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Dasturji Dr. Manekji Naserwanji Dhalla
Dasturji Dr. Manekji Naserwanji Dhalla

Thou art invisible and none can see Thee. Invisibility is the chief characteristic of Thy spirituality, Ahura Mazda. Though present everywhere, Thou art unseen anywhere. Thy invisibility hides Thee from all eyes, human and divine. The Amesha Spentas and Yazatas, Thy archangels and angels, see Thee not. The souls of righteous dead behold Thee not. In his celestial conference with Thee, Zarathushtra saw Thee not and Viraf, in his beatific vision, saw but the sovereign light in Thy ineffable presence.

Unseen by all, Thou dost see all, O all-seeing one nothing is hid from Thee. Thou dost see my mind through and through. Thou dost search the deepest depths of my heart. Thy searching eyes are ever upon me. Thou dost survey my secret thoughts. I hide them from those that are nearest to me but I cannot hide them from Thee. Though Thou livest farthest on high. Thou art at once remotest and closest to me, Thou that livest in all space and beholdest all in both Thy worlds, this and that.

Thou, Ahura Mazda, didst say unto Zarathustra that to see a righteous person was like seeing Thee. I will then strive to see Thee in the righteousness of righteous person around me. But I pray unto Thee for more. Inspire me to act righteousness and own righteousness and be righteousness that steeped in righteousness and righteousness myself. I can see Thee in my righteous self. And Thou didst also say, Ahura Mazda, unto Thy holy prophet that Thou wert light and seeing light was to see Thee. I will then piously endeavour to see and discern Thee in the light that shines in the yonder heavens and down upon earth. But lighten my heart I beseech Thee, with Thy illuminating presence, that prayerful of heart and upright of conduct I may behold Thee within me, without going without.

 

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