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. In the Rashne Yasht, Zarathushtra is said to have asked Ahura Mazda, “What of the Holy Word is created true?….Ahura…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Start your weekend with positive vibes with inspirational excerpts from the acclaimed book, ‘Homage Unto Ahura Mazda’ by Dasturji Dr. Maneckji Naserwanji Dhalla of Karachi.[/otw_shortcode_info_box] Timid and wavering, hesitating and vacillating is the man without courage. He succumbs to the weakness of too ready subservience. He broods over his difficulties and his courage…
On Adar Roj – Adar Mah, which falls on the 22nd of April, 2019 as per the Shahenshahi calendar, Parsis celebrate the ‘Feast of the Fire’, better known as ‘Atash-nu-Parab’. The feast actually begins the day before (Daepadar Roj – Adar Mah, on the 21st of April this year), when the women of the household celebrate…
On April 6, 2019, the vibrant Rustom Baug Senior Citizens Group and tenants celebrated the auspicious Ava Mahino with a Jashan performed by the well. Tenants of various age groups paid abeyance and prayed along with the Athornans and thanked Ahura Mazda and Ava Ardvesur Banoo for their blessings.
Good Friday marks the anniversary of that beautiful morning over 2,000 years ago when a man called Jesus who came from Nazareth arose from the tomb to demonstrate that life (soul) is eternal – that the man in flesh is ‘not’ the real self, but merely the physical symbol of the ever-living soul. He proved…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”] Stress of hard circumstances and sad experiences and sorrows and sufferings breeds gloom in man and breaks his nerves. He quails under misfortune and sinks into despondency. Despondency paralyses his will, eats his heart, and poisons his life. Brooding over his sufferings increases his torment. When depression steals over my spirits and…
Both – Parsi and Irani Zoroastrians are ethnically of Persian (Iranian) origin. Parsis who came to India about 300 years after the fall of the Sasanian Empire (i.e., around the tenth century A.D.) trace their ancestry back to the province of Khorasan, known in ancient times as Parthia. The city of Mashad is situated in…
11th April, 2019 will mark the 188th Birth Anniversary of one of Zoroastrianism’s most revered, loved and worshipped saints – Jamshedji Sohrabji Kukadaru Saheb. Known as the Zarthosti Saint of the 19th Century, Dasturji Kukadaru was born on 26th May, 1831 in Surat, Gujarat, (Zamyad Roj, Avan Mahino) and is as well known for his humility and simplicity…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Start your weekend with positive vibes with inspirational excerpts from the acclaimed book, ‘Homage Unto Ahura Mazda’ by Dasturji Dr. Maneckji Naserwanji Dhalla of Karachi.[/otw_shortcode_info_box] The farmer knows not what the year will bring forth on his field. Men know not what will befall them. Many a misfortune comes upon men unawares. When…
From the time that the journey of his life begins, man likes not to be lonely. His loneliness frightens him. He is afraid to look into it. Crushing is the burden of solitude. Heavy is the load of life that weighs down his spirit, if all alone he has to bear it. Often is the…
Poverty entails untold misery upon the earth. Life gives nothing at all to countless millions of children that are born and condemns them at the very moment of their birth to live in physical and moral wretchedness. They are born for sorrow and suffering. Life does not hold many happy days for them. The shadow…