In the Avesta the Sarosh Baaj is one consolidated prayer, I have broken it into parts for better comprehension of the things we appeal for to the Ultimate, every morning when we pray the Sarosh Baaj.
Sarosh Baaj part IV, consists of transliteration of the Yasnemcha Vahmemcha, Hazem Garem, ‘Kerfe Mazda’.
On reading the entire Sarosh Baaj prayers in English, one understands that after a Zoroastrian sings the praise of Sarosh Yazad and boldly professes through Fravarane Mazdeyasno, his faith in the religion handed down by Ahura Mazda and propagated by the Prophet Zoroaster, the adherent turns to Ahura Mazda for succour against persecution, both personal and religious, and abjures the destructive mind emanating from the evil of Ahriman and Angre Mainyu (Kemna Mazda).
Then in Yasnemcha Vahmemcha, the Zoroastrian asks Ahura Mazda for strength, and enlightenment to follow the Right Path (Asha) to prosperity.
Next, the Zoroastrian believer declares his delight in having professed the Zoroastrianism by articulating his desire to be born within the religion time and time again, ad nauseam.
For his piety and sticking to the Path of Asha, the adherent of Zoroastrianism appeals to Ahura Mazda for the blessings of the various Energies that originate in Him.
‘YASNEMCHA VAHMEMCHA’
To me, the brilliance and strong aura, physical strength, bodily comforts, success in this world, wealth of all happiness, children with innate intelligence, longest life ever, enlightenment born of holiness and purity, and attainment of the heaven with all the comforts/happiness . May my wish be fulfilled!
‘HAZEM GAREM’
A Thousand heavenly births; Ten thousand heavenly births; A Thousand heavenly births; Ten thousand heavenly births; A Thousand heavenly births; Ten thousand heavenly births.
‘JASHME AVANGE MAZDA’
Come to my aid O Hormazd! Succour me the aid of: The innately pure/ good, beautiful, Um (energy that imbues courage), Behram Yazad issued forth from Hormazd, 
Vannati Upartat (energy that oversees environment), Mino Ram (nourishes/ induces of nourishment in food), Vaey Yazad (who works in exists in the upper layers of the atmosphere), O Vaey Yazad, that part of you that is concerned with the birth of the Spentomino, The Sky that acts in accordance with the natural laws of creation, Limitless existence (infinity), The Guaranteed Perpetuity.
‘KERFE MAZDA’
For the Liberation, as my sins so may I in return, receive the reward for the essence of my deeds, for the love of the soul sent to all on the seven continents, the reward is as per spiritual merit to all the pious — tremendous amount of purity/ holiness (Ashoi), as wide as the earth, as long as the river and as exalted as Khorshed May the pious live long! May my wish be fulfilled!
At the end of this entire sequence of prayers for the Sarosh Baaj, Zoroastrians pray the ‘Tandarosti’ for the well being of self, family, friends in particular and the cosmos in general.
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KEMNA MAZDA –A TRANSLITERATION
The Sarosh Baaj of the Avesta is a farzeyaat prayer; a daily requirement. Though in the Avesta the Sarosh Baaj is one long prayer with no parts, I have broken it into parts so as to better understand what it is that we pray daily since our childhood.
Sarosh Baaj part III of these transliterations, consists of transliteration of the ‘Kemna Mazda’. On reading these prayers in English, one understands that after a Zoroastrian sings the praise of Sarosh Yazad and boldly professes (in Fravarane Mazdeyasno) his faith in the religion handed down by Ahura Mazda and propagated by the Prophet Zoroaster, the adherent turns to Ahura Mazda for succour against persecution, both personal and religious, and abjures the destructive mind emanating from the evil of Ahriman and Angre Mainyu.
For a better understanding of this religion received from Ahura Mazda an and brought to us by Zarthushtra, please refer to notes in Sarosh Baaj, Part II— a transliteration.
‘KEMNA MAZDA’
From “Kemna Mazda” to “ya ahmai vashi aahmai chit”
O Hormazd, when a bad man looks at me for revenge or to harm me; who, but 
you, will protect me and mine, the aatash and my mind?
O Hormazd! For the sake of the Religion, reveal to me that, which by the act of both, leads me further on the Path.
When in difficulty, who is he who will vanquish the foe by dint of the verses on your Avesta; which verses are those that bring purity. O Hormazd, show me the leader who can guide me through both lives (here and hereafter). O Hormazd! For He who you love may His life proceed with a good mind and with Sraosh* (yazad).
From “Yatano tabishyant” to “***Armaitish ijaich”
O Hormazd and Aspendamard, save us from the jealous/envious! Go away /leave us! Oh Evil of the demigod; 
Leave us Devidruj (falsity of idols)! O the brave, discard the thoughts of demigods! Leave us Oh the seeds sown by demigods! Leave us Oh the follower of the way of evil demigods! (which way has succeeded so far) ; Disappear! Oh Falsehoods (druj**)! Oh Evil run away from here! Oh Evil be vanquished! Go to the North! The realms of purity (ashoi) are not to be harmed, let good thoughts and prosperity prevail.
*‘Sraosh’ or ‘Sarosh’, the literal meaning of the name is ‘listening’ or ‘sound’; from the root word, ‘Sru’– meaning to obey and hence, obedience to the will of God. This Sraosh or energy of sound is today, treated as an Angel of the Lord who brings us inspiration and who is the guardian of our souls. Sraosh coming with good mind means that men should listen to the inner inspiration of the voice within and then, by voluntary obedience to the divine will his mind be filled with love and thus, be purified.
**‘Druj’ literally means the enemy in ancient Iran the word was used for untruth, the greatest of our foes. In this passage it generally means Evil. North, in ancient Iran was the direction Evil the Abode of the Demons. Asha is also taken to signify divine law and the entire manifest universe emanating from Ahura Mazda including the Eternal Laws of Nature/Tao.
*** ‘Armaiti’ the spirit of the earth is the fourth of the 6 Ameshaspends. She represents piety and faith. Faith, as devotion personified on the Abstract side and as the genius of Earth on the concrete side. Spenta Armaiti Aspendamard ‘Holy devotion’ retains her dual nature in the younger Avesta. She is the first of the mother Trinity of the Holy Immortals she represents firm unswerving faith in and loyalty towards God and his commands she watches over religion and inspires the Faithful she works with Asha she rules over Earth and in places she represents Mother Earth and is our mother both physical and spiritual. When a Zoroastrian dies he is left in her care after the body is placed inside the Tower of silence and its destruction has begun. The people outside the Tower recite the unfinished portion of Sarosh Baaj which they will have commenced by chanting from the last line of Kemna Mazda.
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‘FRAVARAANE MAZDAYASNO’
A Promise (fravarane) to the Mazdayasne religion
I, the brave follower of Hormazd, follower of the Path revealed by Zoroaster, renounce the Demons (Div also means senses), a person who behaves in 
accordance with the way/command of Hormazd (the Geh is prayed here) promise (fravarane) in order to please, O Sarosh, the strong , whose body is made up of prayers, owner of lethal weapons, follower of the way of /manner of Hormazd, to worship, to sing his praises, propitiate his greatness, laud him so that, the great spirit/ meaning of ‘Yatha Ahu Vairyo’ be revealed to me; the pure sage /expert the learned ‘Atha Rathush Asha Chit Hasha’, be revealed to me.
We Praise the beautiful, victorious, one who gives the world progress, Holy and Pure Sarosh, the leader of sanctity (ashoi).
Ahunavar Shields the body from harm!
‘KEMNA MAZDA’ (Transliteration already given during kushti prayers)
*THE PATH REVEALED BY ZARTHUSHTRA AND AHUNAVAR PRINCIPLE:
Mazdayasni simply means the worship of or devotion to wisdom. The religion of Zoroaster in middle Persian was known as ‘Behdin’ or ‘good religion’. Hence the word ‘Behdinan’ means ‘adherents of the Zoroastrian religion’.
The religion exalts wisdom. The name given to the highest divinity is ‘Ahura Mazda’. ‘Ahura’ meaning ‘Being’ and ‘Mazda’ meaning ‘knowledge/wisdom’; the highest divinity in Zoroaster’s religion is therefore, not a personified creator but the intangible being made up of the energies of wisdom. ‘Ahu’ is often translated as ‘Lord’ ‘High Being’, a meaning deduced from the original meaning of ‘Ahu’, ‘a life-giving force’; ‘Mazda’ translated as the supreme intelligence/intellect/wisdom.
Zoroaster attributes this supreme entity with both a mind and a being which are immanent; meaning inherent and indwelling within the divinity itself leading to the belief in a universe that is immanently conscious and self-creating.
However, while this being, Ahura Mazda, the creative mind/principle, is Almighty, but He is not omnipotent; there also exists Ahriman (the destructive mind/principle), who is finally defeated before the end of time and wisdom, the pure and good mind, alone exists thereafter. On Ahriman’s defeat time will end and the Cosmos — including the dark souls – will be renewed and reunite in Ahura Mazda.
Thus the religion has a duality in its cosmogony (how the cosmos/universe
originated), but a monotheism in its eschatology (the part of theology which speaks of the final destiny of the world and humankind). This makes Zoroaster’s religion unique amongst the religions of the world.
The creation emanating from Ahura Mazda is ‘Asha’ (eternal order); that from Ahriman is ‘Druj’ (chaos). Humanity and all Universe have a duty to actively resolve the conflict between Asha and Druj and rise in wisdom and purity. According to Zoroastrian beliefs, Ahura Mazda , patently made clear His ultimate triumph over Ahriman by the enunciating the “Ahuna Vairyo” (Yasna 19: “this utterance is a thing of such a nature, that if all the corporeal and living world should learn it, and learning hold fast by it, they would be redeemed from their mortality.”). The primordial sound, pronounced by Ahura Mazda before the universe manifested itself but after the emergence of the unmanifest, is the ‘Ahuna Vairyo’. It is ascribed with ‘talismanic virtues’ to destroy evil and ‘a most sacred gift’ and ‘healing recitation’ to assist mankind in distress.
Wisdom is immanent in the Universe and in mankind; through it, the self creating wisdom interacts with its created facet. During the temporary state of life manifest, the religion enjoins a duty upon the Universe, including mankind, to actively combat chaos (Ahriman and Angre Mainyu) by performing good deeds and ensuring happiness. This duty of conscious and voluntary participation by Zoroastrians in the war of good versus evil is pertinent to the idea of Free Will in Zoroaster’s teachings; Zoroastrianism abjures any form of monasticism.
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I am doing the Sarosh Baaj in parts at the request of many readers .
Sarosh Baaj is the prayer Parsi children learn immediately after they learn the ‘Kusti’ prayers. Every morning, after doing the Kusti, every Zoroastrian prays the Sarosh Baaj. This prayer may be recited at any time of the day or night. However, the recitation of the ‘Geh’ in ‘Fravarane Mazdayasno’ will change depending on the time of the day. The Sarosh Baaj is a prayer to the Ameshaspand (energies ) that protect and heal and give prosperity. Check out the translation/transliteration of Haptan Yasht also, on this Blog.
From “Paname Yazdaan……pa patet hom.”
The greatness of Hormazd!
In the name of Khoda Hormazd Sahib who promotes /give progress!
May his splendour/majesty and *a u r a (khoreh) increase!
Pure Sarosh! Strong, made up entirely of sounds/prayers, wielder of therapeutic appliances, bearer of victorious weapons, the general of Ahura Mazda Khodai, come to my aid! I do penance for all my sins and become cleansed.
in this world, all the evil thoughts I may have brought to my mind, ill words that I may have spoken, bad deeds that I may have done, those that I have induced or I have begun or that I have encouraged — those sins of thoughts, of words, of deeds, of my body and soul, of this world, of the next world— for these I am remorseful and abstain from them, I do penance for these by observing the three intrinsic goodness ( good thoughts good words good deeds).
*AURA: All creation has an aura from natural to man-made goods.
From time immemorial, man has been in awe of the phenomenon of the aura, investing it with great spiritual value and importance. It has been the constant endeavour of humans to prove the existence of this energy which they call the ‘subtle body’.
Since the 1890s, man had been trying to photograph this phenomenon. Simply put, the aura is natural heat emanating from a body producing subtle images . This aura of a body will change with the internal changes in the body. We have
SEE THE DIFFENCE IN THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE EMNATIONS.
already seen in Sarosh Yasht Hadokth Ni Nirang that any vibrations (sound) appear to have colours depending on the length of the waves of that body’s vibrations or vibratory level. All creation, generates and radiates electromagnetic energy, photons of light, scents, sounds, heat, in keeping with the internal state of it’s body. These radiations contain a wealth of information about the body in question.
Therefore the energy emanating from a body will also have colour in
keeping with the waves that make up that particular energy.
In 1939, Russian electrician Semyon Davidovich Kirlian and his wife, Valentina, accidentally discovered that energy can be photographed. This ‘Kirlian Photography’ uses 50,000 volts and a broad range of frequencies, ultra low current to make visible invisible energy fields , giving us unique insights.
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SAROSH BAAJ — A TRANSLITERATION. Prayer to the energies of protection
Sarosh Baaj is the prayer Parsi children learn immediately after they learn the ‘Kusti’ prayers. Every morning, after doing the Kusti, every Zoroastrian prays the Sarosh Baaj. This prayer may be recited at any time of the day or night. However, the recitation of the ‘Geh’ in ‘Fravarane Mazdayasno’ will change depending on the time of the day. The Sarosh Baaj is a prayer to the Ameshaspand (energies ) that protect and heal and give prosperity. Check out the translation/transliteration of Haptan Yasht also, on this Blog.
From “Paname Yazdaan……pa patet hom.”
The greatness of Hormazd!
In the name of Khoda Hormazd Sahib who promotes /give progress!
May his splendour/majesty and aura (khoreh) increase!
Pure Sarosh! Strong, with body made of prayers, wielder of therapeutic appliances, bearer of victorious weapons, the general of Ahura Mazda Khodai, come to my aid! I do penance for all my sins and become cleansed.
In this world, all the evil thoughts I may have brought to my mind, ill words that I may have spoken, bad deeds that I may have done, those that I have induced or I have begun or that I have encouraged — those sins of thoughts, of words, of deeds, of my body and soul, of this world, of the next world— for these I am remorseful and abstain from them, I do penance for these by observing the three intrinsic goodness ( good thoughts good words good deeds).
‘FRAVARAANE MAZDSYASNO’
A Promise (fravarane) to the Mazdayasne religion
I, the brave follower of Hormazd, follower of the Path revealed by Zoroaster, renounce the Demons (Div also means senses), a person who behaves in accordance with the way/command of Hormazd (the Geh is prayed here) promise (fravarane) in order to please, O Sarosh, the strong , whose body is made up of prayers, owner of lethal weapons, follower of the way of /manner of Hormazd, to worship, to sing his praises, propitiate his greatness, laud him so that, the great spirit/ meaning of ‘Yatha Ahu Vairyo’ be revealed to me; the pure sage /expert the learned ‘Atha Rathush Asha Chit Hasha’, be revealed to me.
We Praise the beautiful, victorious, one who gives the world progress, Holy and Pure Sarosh, the leader of sanctity (ashoi).
Ahunavar Shields the body from harm!
‘KEMNA MAZDA’ (Transliteration already on this Blog)
‘YASNEMCHA VAHMEMCHA’
To me, the brilliance and strong aura, physical strength, bodily comforts, success in this world, wealth of all happiness, children with innate intelligence, longest life ever, enlightenment born of holiness and purity, and attainment of the heaven with all the comforts/happiness . May my wish be fulfilled!
‘HAZEM GAREM’
A Thousand heavenly births;
Ten thousand heavenly births;
A Thousand heavenly births;
Ten thousand heavenly births;
A Thousand heavenly births;
Ten thousand heavenly births.
‘JASHME AVANGE MAZDA’
Come to my aid O Hormazd!
Succour me the aid of:
The innately pure/ good, beautiful, Um (energy that imbues courage),
Behram Yazad created by Hormazd,
Vannati Upartat (energy that oversees environment),
Mino Ram (nourisher/ inducer of nourishment in food),
Vaey Yazad (who works in exists in the upper layers of the atmosphere),
O Vaey Yazad, that part of you that is concerned with the birth of the Spentomino,
The Sky that acts in accordance with the natural laws of creation,
Limitless existence (infinity),
The Guaranteed Perpetuity
‘KERFE MAZDA’
For the Liberation, as my sins so may I in return, receive the reward for the essence of my deeds, for the love of the soul sent to all on the seven continents, the reward is as per spiritual merit to all the pious — tremendous amount of purity/ holiness (Ashoi), as wide as the earth, as long as the river and as exalted as Khorshed
May the pious live long!
May my wish be fulfilled!
At the end of this entire sequence of prayers for the Sarosh Baaj, Zoroastrians pray the ‘Tandarosti’ for the well being of self, family, friends in particular and the cosmos in general.
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