During one of my meditation sessions I was speaking with someone who said that he was a god. I asked him his name he replied "Vahista." I began research on this name and found this to be very interesting.
I have never ever heard of the Zoroastrian religion but I found that the principle in which this particular deity was known for was so much in line of what speaks to my spirit- Truth, Righteousness, Cosmic Order. I am not going to get into too much about what I found but I left a link to one of my sources:
http://accessnewage.com/articles/mystic/ash.htm
But here are a few paragraphs that I cut out (I deleted some text in-between):
Asha is first of all Truth, the opposite of the Lie, and encompasses all clear and objective vision, all honesty and unclouded thought, word, and deed. Then it is "Righteousness," which involves a commitment to good actions that build society and lead toward health, peace, and good will. These actions are not prescribed, as they are in Jewish or Islamic sacred Law, but they will vary as the conditions of history or society vary. However, the underlying call to right action remains the same.Asha is also LAW - not a prescribed set of commandments, but a description of the laws that rule our lives and the universe around us. Asha is impersonal. In Zoroastrianism, Ahura Mazda is not the type of God who will suspend the laws of reality in order to make a point or to help someone. In Zarathushtra's concept of divine governance, there are no suns standing still, miraculous healings, miraculous plagues or deliverance's, no resurrections from the dead. In all the Gathas there are no miracles or supernatural occurrences; this is astonishing for something composed 3500 years ago. In the way of Asha, God set up the laws of reality, both in the natural world and the social world - and he will not break them.
Therefore, to praise Asha as the "best" (Avestan, vahishta) is to put yourself in harmony with cosmic order, and to commit yourself to the search for Truth in your spiritual, moral, and work life. Asha indwells within you, as it does in everyone, and it is divine. Every time you do a righteous deed, no matter how small, you are bringing yourself closer to God through Asha Vahishta.
Is Asha Vahishta just a glorified version of the Ten Commandments - a set of religious rules writ large? Not really. Asha is not like the "Ten Commandments," because the Commandments, and the Torah, are prescriptive. Asha is descriptive. The commandment says, for instance,"Thou shalt not steal." What Asha would say, if it could talk, would be: "If you steal, you may get the owner of what you stole angry, and he will punish you or the civil law will do that; and if you get away with it in this world, when you die and come to judgment, it will be remembered that you stole."Asha is not "rules," but "law," not in the sense of "thou shalts" or "thou shalt not's" but in the sense of geometric axioms, or the laws of physics. I like to think of Asha as "the software of the universe" or perhaps its "operating system" in that it orders the working of all things, whether we like it or not. And unlike software, it can't be changed. Can the speed of light be changed, or the laws of mathematics or physics? The scientific method applies to Asha. There is no immutable Scripture telling us what Asha is; we learn by experience, hypothesis, experiment, proof, and demonstration. If what seems to be Asha doesn't make sense, it is not that Asha is wrong, but our own idea of it, our ignorance of Asha as it truly is - and it is necessary for us to return to our investigations.
Its amazing how some universal truths have been in existance in all walks of life throughout our history- to teach us how to love and be loved. This philosophy or religion sure seems much closer to reality than some of the ones that are widely used today.
I have never ever heard of the Zoroastrian religion but I found that the principle in which this particular deity was known for was so much in line of what speaks to my spirit- Truth, Righteousness, Cosmic Order. I am not going to get into too much about what I found but I left a link to one of my sources:
http://accessnewage.com/articles/mystic/ash.htm
But here are a few paragraphs that I cut out (I deleted some text in-between):
Asha is first of all Truth, the opposite of the Lie, and encompasses all clear and objective vision, all honesty and unclouded thought, word, and deed. Then it is "Righteousness," which involves a commitment to good actions that build society and lead toward health, peace, and good will. These actions are not prescribed, as they are in Jewish or Islamic sacred Law, but they will vary as the conditions of history or society vary. However, the underlying call to right action remains the same.Asha is also LAW - not a prescribed set of commandments, but a description of the laws that rule our lives and the universe around us. Asha is impersonal. In Zoroastrianism, Ahura Mazda is not the type of God who will suspend the laws of reality in order to make a point or to help someone. In Zarathushtra's concept of divine governance, there are no suns standing still, miraculous healings, miraculous plagues or deliverance's, no resurrections from the dead. In all the Gathas there are no miracles or supernatural occurrences; this is astonishing for something composed 3500 years ago. In the way of Asha, God set up the laws of reality, both in the natural world and the social world - and he will not break them.
Therefore, to praise Asha as the "best" (Avestan, vahishta) is to put yourself in harmony with cosmic order, and to commit yourself to the search for Truth in your spiritual, moral, and work life. Asha indwells within you, as it does in everyone, and it is divine. Every time you do a righteous deed, no matter how small, you are bringing yourself closer to God through Asha Vahishta.
Is Asha Vahishta just a glorified version of the Ten Commandments - a set of religious rules writ large? Not really. Asha is not like the "Ten Commandments," because the Commandments, and the Torah, are prescriptive. Asha is descriptive. The commandment says, for instance,"Thou shalt not steal." What Asha would say, if it could talk, would be: "If you steal, you may get the owner of what you stole angry, and he will punish you or the civil law will do that; and if you get away with it in this world, when you die and come to judgment, it will be remembered that you stole."Asha is not "rules," but "law," not in the sense of "thou shalts" or "thou shalt not's" but in the sense of geometric axioms, or the laws of physics. I like to think of Asha as "the software of the universe" or perhaps its "operating system" in that it orders the working of all things, whether we like it or not. And unlike software, it can't be changed. Can the speed of light be changed, or the laws of mathematics or physics? The scientific method applies to Asha. There is no immutable Scripture telling us what Asha is; we learn by experience, hypothesis, experiment, proof, and demonstration. If what seems to be Asha doesn't make sense, it is not that Asha is wrong, but our own idea of it, our ignorance of Asha as it truly is - and it is necessary for us to return to our investigations.
Its amazing how some universal truths have been in existance in all walks of life throughout our history- to teach us how to love and be loved. This philosophy or religion sure seems much closer to reality than some of the ones that are widely used today.
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