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110 WRITER'S DISLIKE OF THE GATHIC LAW OF “FATE” (Paitioget).
The writer of Zoroastrian Theology seems to be averse to the
doctrine of Fate and he seems to believe as on p. 208 that. -
"The ever active spirit of Zoroastrianism militated against fatalism and
saved the nation from its baneful effect."
But we must say emphatically that-
The law of “Paitioget” or Action-and-Reaction has been
taught in the Gathas, that the Creator has been styled as “Hatamarane”
the infallible accountant in the Gathas, that the Yazata
Mithra has been appointed in the Avesta the lord observing the law
of Paitioget, and that the law of exertion and destiny always
inseparably linked together is one of the fundamental laws of
Zoroastrianism.
The writer of Zoroastrian Theology seems to be ignorant of this
doctrine as taught in the Gathas and other Avestan scriptures; and
hence having natural aversion for the Moslem view of fatalism as he
may have understood it, he cannot tolerate the law of destiny as result
of exertion preached in the Pahlavi work of Mino-i-Kherat (i.e. the
Spirit of Wisdom or Spiritual Wisdom,) and speculates as in the case of
Greek influence that there is Moslem influence to be found in that
abstruse Pahlavi work. When we read pp. 23 and 24 of the book of
Zoroastrian Theology we find that the writer has not lost sight of the
law of Cause and Effect, Action and Reaction, Exertion and Destiny,
Response in the form of reward or punishment-as taught in the Gathas.
But it seems that the writer of Zoroastrian Theology is very impatient
and hasty in arriving at his own speculative conclusions on any subject.
He could have drawn far better inferences and correct ones if he had
treated the whole theme without any bias lurking in his mind. But an
unbiassed condition is quite impossible with him, for his mind seems to
be heated with the ideas of his favourite mission newly invented as
evinced throughout his book. He says on pp. 23, 24 under the heading
“Ahura Mazda has ordained that virtue is its own reward and vice its
own retribution,” --
“Every individual is to reap the consequences of his own thoughts, words
and deed. Zarathushtra exhorts men and women to make their