Of Good Minds And Collective Consciousness

Dear Readers,

Even before the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic, which brought life to a soul-screeching halt for a while, we were adequately aware of, and even exposed to witnessing Mother Nature’s reaction to the abuse of Her elements. Across the world, there were raging forest fires and floods; extreme weather events – cyclones, tsunamis, earthquakes and heatwaves – all increasing in regularity and severity; changing global rainfall patterns leading to crop failures, destroying lives and livelihoods and infrastructure; and causing global conflicts and devastation.

As Zoroastrians, we primarily worship the elements of Nature. In His incomparable wisdom, our Prophet Zarathushtra emphasized the importance of respecting these elements, thousands of years ago. We need to use our ‘good minds and our collective consciousness’ to address and mitigate the impact of environmental abuse.

Our community, with its alarmingly decreasing population, stands at a similar impasse too. It’s crucial that we extend our ‘good minds and collective consciousness’ to doing all we can to ensure the longevity and prosperity of our community. For this too, we would need to address and mitigate a number of factors – especially our indifference in community affairs and disrespect / intolerance of all whose beliefs do not align with ours.

This would go a long way in setting right the wrongs, but more so, it will also set the right precedent for our current and next gens to not take for granted, much less abuse, the glorious privilege and responsibility of being Parsi.

Have a good weekend!

– Anahita