. Life, to a vast majority, is a disinheritance. Providence feeds some to the fill but leaves many even without their daily feed. Few are born with silver spoons in their mouths, when many enter the world without even wooden ladles. The poor have more mouths than they can fill. Poverty fetters ambition and stifles […]
.Myth No. 1: In the Zoroastrian funeral ceremony a dog is brought near the corpse to determine whether there is still any life left. Today with the advances in science, isn’t this a rather archaic diagnostic method? It is also believed that the dog shows the spiritual path to the soul. Fact: The religious texts […]
. The Navjote ceremony is when a Parsi child is formally taken into the Zoroastrian fold. The Navjote symbolises that the child acknowledges and accepts Zoroastrian religion, which has been handed down to mankind through holy Zarathustra. The Navjote ceremony is performed ideally between the age of 7 to 9 years, before a child attains […]
Zarathushtra brands scandal or slander, backbiting or calumny as an inexpiable sin. Scandal creeps and crawls like a loathsome reptile or flies like a winged snake. Upon swift wings does it fly from mouth to mouth. It grows wild like weeds and finds its widest currency. Scandal wallows in mire and swamp and flings mud on all […]
Dae Mahino, Khorshed Roj, which falls on Thursday, the 24th of May, 2018, marks the day known as ‘Zarthost-No-Diso’, or the day that our beloved prophet, Zarathustra left the earthly, mortal life to re-unite with Ahura Mazda. On this day, special prayer sessions are organized, with prayers and religious discourses hailing the great life and miracles of our […]
PT: What is a Jasan? Er. Harvesp: A Jasan is a religious thanks giving ceremony that commemorates an important event. Generally, Jasans are performed as a thanksgiving for happy and auspicious occasions like an anniversary, an engagement, house warming, graduation, birthday etc. Jasan or Fareshta are also performed to remember our departed souls on important days like […]
Man is mirrored in his manners and his worth is valued according to his manners. A well-bred man is a man of good and gentle manners. It is not birth or rank or wealth that makes a lady or a gentleman. A peasant can be a gentleman, as a peasant-woman can be a lady. Nobility […]
Intolerance and bigotry and dogmatism are the bitterest enemies of religion upon earth. They make religion a tyrant, a persecutor, a veritable daeva, the demoniac perversion of angelic religion. The frog croaks that his well is the whole world and the bigot boasts that his is the only inspired and perfect religion. The truth and […]
Myth: Parsis are a peaceful and peace-loving community and unlike other communities, they have never indulged in rioting. Fact: Anyone and almost everyone would agree that by and large the Parsi community is peaceful and peace-loving and has always been loved by all communities for its charitable disposition and ability to laugh at its […]
.In the midst of the direst need and want, there is a surfeit of the gaiety and frivolity of the dazzling life of society, the glare and glamour of rich dresses and priceless jewellery and ostentatious parade of the gorgeous finery. Many a hungry mouth can be fed from the leavings of the sumptuous tables […]
Parsi Times completes seven years. Hearty congratulations and what a propitious milestone this is! Seven is indeed a very auspicious number according to several religious and cultural traditions. The number seven is one of the most significant in the Bible. Scholars say it denotes completeness or perfection. After creating the world in six days, which […]