1. To be rid of: noxious and harmful creatures, filthy and stinking creatures, creatures like reptiles, scorpions, insects, ants, wasps, rats, midges, locust, lice, fleas mad monstrous spirits that plagued the pre-historic world creatures from another cycle of creation bringing ruin and destruction to the present world souls living in limbo or any conscious force that manifests inappropriately/improperly Maliciously clever, corrupt, half-witted intelligence or distorted wisdom Stagnant energy that has stopped progressing. In Zoroastrian lore, all that has stopped evolving or progressing has no further place in creation. 2. To eradicate all evil that can be transformed or destroyed with knowledge and wisdom. 3. To defeat the invincible.
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VANANT YASHT — TRANSLITERATION. *Vanant Yasht is prayed to banish **Kharfestar (see meaning below) and harmful animals from our lives. Vanant is considered a guardian of goodness. It is believed that praying the Vanant Yasht is a potent remedy in fighting evil. The literal meaning of Vanant is ‘conqueror’ …
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Nirangs from the various Yashts in the Avesta are the sum total of the preceding Yasht presented in a concise form. where a Zoroastrian is really running short of time and needs to invoke a particular enenrgy, he may pray the Nirang of the required Yasht. when my mother, in the last ten days of her life was in a coma, a dasturji advised me to pray the Ardibehest Yasht ni Nirang three times in her ear during my short few minutes permitted in the ICU.
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