Parsi Times brings you Dr. Jasvi’s column on her unique Numero-Tarot monthly readings, based on your month of birth: January (Lucky No. 21; Lucky Card: World): A bright sunny period has finally begun for you, after a long, dark night. It will bring you name, fame and prosperity. Your health will be in great shape. You […]
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The Universe Has Its Own Language!
In the vastness of space, in the rumblings of the tides, in the movement of the stars have we existed. We have lived a thousand times over, felt found and lost, amassed friends and family that have helped or failed us from time to time, but has, in the end, led us to where we […]
The Seven Sacred Amesha Spentas
The first seven days, according to our calendar, are named after the Seven Ameshaspands. Each of these also has some helpers or assistants who assist them in performing their righteous duty. The significance of the Ameshaspands is as given under: Dadar Hormuzd – the Wisdom and the Spirit of God (Spenta Mainyu): Every man requires the […]
The Torments Of A Guilty Conscience
. Daena is thine, Ahura Mazda. It is Thy divine voice that whispers and speaks to me through my conscience. It is the guardian and watchman of my morals and Thy moral law is engraved on its tablet. It is Thy vicegerent in me that approves and attests, commends and condemns, warns and guides, censures […]
Give Me A Peaceful Old Age
. Sinlessness is struggle. It is triumph in the war waged against temptation to sin. The sinful act is a sin indeed, but the very will to sin, the inclination to sin, the intention to sin, is also sin. The will to sin may not be realized, the inclination to sin may not succeed, and […]
Time Is Life
Thine is Zurvan Akarana, the boundless Time, Ahura Mazda. From it hast Thou carved out Zurvan Daregho-khvadhata, the Time of Long Duration of our world. Eons count not in the eternity of time and a millennium is but a moment. The period of man’s life in eternity is like a flash of Thy lightning that […]
અર્દી બહેસ્ત-સત્યના મૂર્ત સ્વરૂપ, પ્રમાણિક અને ઈશ્ર્વરી કૃપા
આ અઠવાડિયે સોમવારે 18મી સપ્ટેમ્બર 2017ને દિને અર્દીબહેસ્ત રોજ અને અર્દીબહેસ્ત માહ છે. જ્યારે રોજ અને માહ બન્ને સુસંગત-એકીસાથે આવે ત્યારે તેને પરબ કહેવાય છે. અર્દીબહેસ્ત એ જરથોસ્તી કેલેન્ડરનો બીજો મહિનો છે. આ મહિનાની ઉજવણી, સત્ય, ઈમાનદારી, ઈશ્ર્વર પ્રત્યે શ્રધ્ધા, દરદ મટાડનાર તરીકે થાય છે. અર્દીબહેસ્ત એટલે અમેસાસ્પંદ અથવા અમેસાસ્પેન્તા તરીકે પણ ઓળખાય છે. જે […]
Priesthood Initiation Ceremonies: Navar And Martab
The Navar Ceremony: One newly initiated into the work of offering prayers, rites and sacred things to Ahura Mazda is called Navar. The candidate for initiation must first pass through two bareshnum purifications. He is then initiated into the order by two priests. To qualify for the performance of the ceremony, these priests have to […]
Our Culture Is Exotic
Thou, Ahura Mazda, art the divine artist who hast designed and built and sculptured and painted Thy sublime nature that speaks to us and sings to us and inspires us and elevates us. Real greatness of people consists not in its hoarded wealth or its territorial possessions, as in the accumulated treasure of the cultivated […]
Ardibehesht – The Embodiment of Truth, Righteousness And Divine Order
Ardibehesht is the second month of the Zoroastrian calendar. It is a month that celebrates, truth, righteousness, divine order and healing. Ardibehesht is an Amshaspand (Archangel) or Amesha Spenta (Bounteous Immortal) who presides over the energy of fire. Adar Yazad is a Hamkara or helper of Ardibehesht. It is for this reason a number of […]
Meherbai’s Trip To Goa In The Rains!!
Meherbai loved Goa in the rains, so every year, she, along with ten other senior-citizen couples, took a trip to Goa, to experience the rains there, calling it her annual ‘happiness-pilgrimage’ with friends! This year was no different except that the rain-Gods decided to descend upon Mumbai causing a deluge for two days. All the […]