The Gathas Recited by Kersey Antia, Ph.D.
Dr. Kersey Antia is the Zoroastrian High Priest of Chicago, Illinois,
a position he has held since 1977. He attended the M.F. Cama
Athornan Institute in Bombay for 9 years where he received
an award for excellence, and became an ordained priest at the age of 13. He
studied Avesta and Pahlavi in secondary school and at
the University of Bombay. While in college, he received essay-awards from the
K.R. Cama Oriental Institute, and has served the
community as a volunteer priest ever since his first job as a Tata officer in
1960.
Dr. Antia obtained a Masters in Psychology from North Carolina
State University, and a Doctorate in Psychology from Indiana Northern
University. After working as a psychologist at the University of North
Carolina, in private industry and for the State of Illinois, his is now engaged
in full time private practice. He has lectured and written on the subject of
Zoroastrianism, in India and the United States, both live and on radio and on
television, and has made video courses on Zoroastrianism. He has studied the
Gathas on his own for many years. Utilizing, at first, the translations of
Kanga, Mills, and Taraporewala, he now relies primarily on Dr. Insler's
translation.
Click on any of the links below to listen to
the Gathas recited by Dr. Kersey Antia. It might take
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Recital of all Gathas
(2 hours and 29 minutes)
Audio files by Gatha:
Introduction to Gathas (8
minutes)
Spentomaiti Gatha (20 minutes)
Vohukshathra Gatha (10 minutes)
Vahishtoisht Gatha (6 minutes)
Three
most important Zoroastrian prayers (2 minutes)