An inspirational must read.
Firdosh Tolat
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How Sarosh Yazad’s divine help saved a devout Parsi family !
Posted on 10 May, 2013 by yazdi
Ramiyar Karanjia Updates
Posted on 3 May, 2013 by yazdi
Hello friends,
Time for updates news.
This month we have the timeless Pahlavi text of – Adarbad Mahraspand. The teachings in it are as valid today as they were 1600 years back. Read it under the link IRANIAN LANGUAGES > PAHLAVI.
A couple of FAQs have been added.
In the section COURSES > GENERAL > RITUALS> Vendidad and Nirang-din rituals have been added.
Zarthostipedia under the link ZOROASTRIANISM is updated with several new entries
May our ancient wisdom be like a cool breeze in the sweltering heat of May till the first June raindrops bring back a cooler clime.
Prayers for health and happiness
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Residential Refresher Programme for Ostas, Ervads & Behdin Pasbaans
Posted on 2 May, 2013 by Support
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WITH THE BLESSINGS OF LATE SETH MERWANJI MUNCHERJI CAMA – OUR BENEFACTOR
The EX-STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION of THE M.F. CAMA ATHORNAN INSTITUTE
Takes great pleasure to announce
12th RESIDENTIAL REFRESHER PROGRAMME FOR OSTAS AND ERVADS & 5th RESIDENTIAL WORKSHOP FOR “BEHDIN PASBAANS”
The Ex-Students’ Association of the M.F. Cama Athornan Institute is organizing 12th Residential Refresher Programme for the Ostas and Ervads & 5th Residential Workshop for “Behdin Pasbaans” from 7th to 18th May 2013 at Cama Baug –(Small otla), Charni Road Junction, Grant Road, Mumbai, for providing training and practice of bhanter and ceremonies, for explaining the meanings and significance of different prayers and ceremonies, as well as for imparting information by way of questions-answers, lectures by Guest Speakers, Films and Audio –Visual shows etc. on interesting topics and matters raised by young and aged on various customs and practices. We welcome registration from both – Athornan and Behdin participants of Mumbai as well as all over India and abroad in large numbers.
The programme is totally FREE OF COST & open to persons of all ages, and includes boarding, lodging, supply of books, study materials, etc.
For Admission and further information , contact:-
¨ Er. Dr. Cyrus Solaina – 9820555266 . ¨ Er. Keki Ravji – 9820471252, 23871783 –Cama Baug Agiary, Grant Road. ¨ Mr. Godrej Fanibanda – 9820330753. For Inquires Contact ‘.: 22000831 , 65069313
LAST DATE OF RECEIVING ENTRIES: 3rd May, 2013. |
Please click here for the Application Form & List of Clothes.12RRP-MFCAI-Announc-ADV for 14March13
Courtesy : Marzban Giara
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Parsi Pukar, Parsi Avaz, Dini Avaz
Posted on 2 May, 2013 by Support
Dear Members,
All Parsi Pukar, Parsi Avaz, Dini Avaz files can be found on links provided below.
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=a4c89cbd09eb9afb&id=A4C89CBD09EB9AFB%21112
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=a4c89cbd09eb9afb&id=A4C89CBD09EB9AFB%21404
http://tenets.zoroastrianism.com/
Courtesy : Firdosh K. Sukhia
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Ilm-e-Khshnoom SkyDrive
Posted on 2 May, 2013 by Support
Welcome to the Ilm-e-Khshnoom literature SkyDrive
Thanks to the untiring efforts of a very young and enthusiastic volunteer (who refuses to reveal his name), the vast majority of books on various topics written by Khshnoom Masters such as Dr. Saheb Framroze S. Chiniwalla, Jehangirji S. Chiniwalla, Ervad Phiroze S. Masani as well as the revered Master, Ustad Saheb Behramshah N. Shroff himself, have been digitized and rendered in to the PDF format. These PDF files are available on a specially created Ilm-e-Khshnoom SkyDrive.
We have classified this literature under the following main headings:
Under each heading, the different books have been listed, with brief explanations.
To read the books, click on the file icon on the respective pages.
To download the books, right click the icon and chose Save As on the respective pages.
I am hopeful that readers of Frashogard will make optimum use of this invaluable resource.
Ervad Marzban J. Hathiram
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Atash or Atash-Parasti, the Worship of Fire
Posted on 17 April, 2013 by yazdi
Appended hereunder is an article titled “Atash or Atash Parasti, the Worship of Fire” written by Mrs. Pervin Jimmy Mistry.
Regards,
Neville S. Gandhi
God Bless You
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Atash or Atash-Parasti, the Worship of Fire
The Worship of the Sacred Fire is also one of the 7 Fundamental Pillars of our Religion. It is to honor our sacred covenant with Ahura Mazda and Asho Zarathsuhtra of preserving the worship of Atash that we left our homeland of Iran and brought the “alat” to India so we carry on our Atash-Parasti in continuity, with faith.
The Holy Avesta calls Atash/Fire as Ahura Mazda’s Son. The “Son” or the “seed” is a reproduction of its parent; therefore, as Ahura Mazda’s Son, Atash is necessarily present in all our rituals. It is through Fire, the Son, that we receive Ahura Mazda’s blessings. In the Atash Niyayesh that includes Gathic portions, fire is called the giver of health (spiritual as well as physical), and a healer who bestows spiritual blessings to the righteous. Fire is the physical manifestation of Ahura Mazda’s divine energy that permeates through time and space, opening the door of communion with the spiritual world.
The concept and worship of Fire as taught by Asho Zarathushtra is unique to our Religion. Fire is called Asha Vahishta, an Ameshaspand who is united with Ahura Mazda. Fire is spiritual as well as physical. Just as Vohu Mano is Ahura Mazda’s Divine Mind, Asha Vahishta (Fire) is the Divine Energy of Ahura Mazda that pervades every atom of the Universe. It is the Source of all Creation, of Life itself. It is Asha, the Divine Cosmic Fire of Ahura Mazda which sustains and motivates Nature from the moment of Creation till Farshogard is attained. The rotation of the celestial bodies, the waxing and the waning of the Moon, the seasons, the rise and fall of tides, birth and death, are all due to this Immutable Law of Asha (Cosmic Fire) which, through graded rotations, in time, revolves the Universe to Spiritual Perfection and Immortality. Asho Zarathushtra teaches that the Universe was created and exists due to Ahura Mazda’s Radiant Energy (Fire) and in time, will be absorbed into the same Divine Energy that manifested it billions and trillions of years ago. Science acknowledges that the Universe (Earth too) was born out of a ball of Cosmic Fire in its primordial stages of Creation and at the end of time it will be consumed back into the Cosmic Fire. (more…)
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What is Vendidad
Posted on 7 April, 2013 by yazdi
Trust you will find the attachment on the subject interesting.
Courtesy : Kersee Kabraji
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Least known Facts about the Gathas
Posted on 6 April, 2013 by yazdi
Least known Facts about the Gathas (Abridged summary of the Paper presented at European Conference 2009)
Dr. Pallan Ichaporia,-Mainz Universitat.
The Gathas were only fragmentarily comprehensible even to the more intelligent among Zarathushtra’s lay contemporaries, and long before the restoration of the Mazdayasnian Religion in the Sasanian period also the priestly tradition seems to have lost a reliable knowledge of the contents of these holy texts, of their poetical style, of their syntactical and morphological rules, and the lexical meanings of numerous words, (see Malandra and Ichaporia, “The Pahlavi Yasna of the Gathas and Yasna Hapantghaiti”, 2010, p.271.)
It is the power of these texts and their recitation which continues to be relevant to this day. The interpretation of the Gathas as a religious textbook or a code of laws, or even as a collection of Sermons is likely to be rather recent. Slightly modifying such views, a great many modern scholars start out from the premise that the Gathas are a systematic though complicated exposition of the basic tenets of the religion preached by Zarathushtra. Yet neither this nor the above tallies with the facts. Just a glance to the statistics of the use of the vocative case in the Gathas makes evident that these most holy texts are invocation of Ahura Mazda and philosophical conversations with Him, the initiated one par excellence, where as human persons are apostrophized only occasionally in a sort of rhetorical digression.
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Watch Out – The North!
Posted on 1 April, 2013 by Support
Why is the North so looked down upon in Zoroastrian literature ?
Courtesy : K F Keravala
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In Search of My God
Posted on 21 March, 2013 by yazdi
Happy Navroz to you and your family!I am happy to tell you that my book project is complete and now available online at www.insearchofmygod.com Please try out the links in the table of contents and the audio in the prayers section. Would appreciate it if you could post it on your page also on facebook if you have a page and pass it on to all whom you think might be interested. Thanks for your help.
Discover the glory of the Zoroastrian religion in this magnificently written and illustrated book. Embrace the history of our people, explore the King’s stories, listen to daily prayers spoken on an audio recording, and more.
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