Daisy P. Navdar is a teacher by profession and a firm believer in the efficacy of our Manthravani. She is focused on ensuring that the deep significance of our prayers is realized by our youth. She credits her learnings and insights, shared in her articles, to all Zoroastrian priests and scholars whose efforts have contributed […]
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Dua Naam Setayeshni
Daisy P. Navdar is a teacher by profession and a firm believer in the efficacy of our Manthravani. She is focused on ensuring that the deep significance of our prayers is realized by our youth. She credits her learnings and insights, shared in her articles, to all Zoroastrian priests and scholars whose efforts have contributed […]
It Is Given To Man Alone To Accumulate Knowledge
. Ahura Mazda has kindled the divine flame of illuminating light in man’s mind. Reason is the prerogative of man. It raises him above the beasts. Animals live by instinct. With reason as the eye of his soul and as his guide to steer the bark of his life, man creates culture and civilization and […]
Ask For Divine Blessings!
. “Create a sacred space to learn more about your body and your mind, go on a date with yourself and explore emotions, sensation, desires, dreams, and accept yourself as you are. By spending time getting to know yourself better, you will know what you have to offer and, it will be easier to ask […]
Mino Ashishwang Beresad
. Mino Ashishwang Banu is the beloved daughter of Pak Dadar Ahura Mazda. In terms of religious analogy, with regard to Hindu philosophy, she may be likened to Ma Laxmi, the royal consort of Lord Vishnu. However, the role that is played by Mino Ashishwang Banu is not just as the Goddess of Wealth. It […]
Give Me Insatiable Avidity For Learning, Ahura Mazda
Give me the will to know and the will to learn, Ahura Mazda. Let me be a learning all my life. Let me be a life-long student. Let me study as an ardent and not as a dilettante. Let me always be looking for information and instruction from anywhere and everywhere. Spare me from conflicting […]
Yatu Zi Zarathushtra
(From the Haptan Yasht)
. Our challenges come in all categories. Some have health concerns, some have educational challenges, some face difficulties with children or parents, some face workplace pressure and so on… the list is endless. However, we have all, at some point in our lives, faced situations that defy logic, problems that seemingly have no solution. We […]
‘Ush Moi Uzareshwa Ahura’
– ‘Let Me Stand Purified In The Presence Of Ahura Mazda!’ – . . For us Zoroastrians, Fire has long been a symbol of our worship. We revere fire and relate its light and energy to the magnificent energy of Pak Dadar Ahura Mazda. We bow in reverence to our holy fires and perform […]
Blasphemous It Is To Term Non-Zoroastrians As Darvands
All flesh is one and whole mankind shares its oneness. Flesh in its make knows no degree of purity and righteousness. Religion imparts not exclusive holiness to its adherents. Purity of thought and purity of words and purity of deeds, regardless of caste or colour or creed, make men and women holy or unholy, righteous […]
Life Is Based On The Law Of Polarity
Spenta Mainyu – the Good Spirit, and Angra Mainyu – the Evil Spirit, are inveterate foes. With the advent of man upon earth, the warfare between them has begun. It will end in the defeat of the Evil Spirit, when human life upon earth will end. The Evil Spirit deranges what the Good Spirit has […]
Strengthen Me To Fight Evil, Ahura Mazda
Man harbors within his breast the Good Spirit and the Evil Spirit alike. The ghastly, shadowy forms of his vicious thoughts, sensuous passions, carnal desires, termed Daevas and Draujas, Demons and Fiends, the brood of darkness, fill the atmosphere around him. He carries them on his shoulders. Angra Mainyu, the Evil Spirit, the sovereign of […]