[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]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…
The primary functional Agiary of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the ‘Byramji Nowroji Javeri Dar-E-Meher’ in Kanpur, every year invites Behdin Pasbans, from Mumbai and Navsari, during the holy days of Muktad and Gathas to help offer religious prayers, in absence of Mobeds. Since 2013, the Behdin Pasbans have been devotedly taking care of the sacred…
સમગ્ર વિશ્ર્વના જરથોસ્તીઓ પારસી કેલેન્ડરના હિસાબે છેલ્લા દસ દિવસ ઉજવી રહ્યા છે. મુકતાદ એટલે મૃતકોને યાદ કરવાના દિવસ એમ નથી હોતું. મુકતાદ ખુશીનો પ્રસંગ છે અને આ સમયે પવિત્ર આત્માઓ અને ફ્રવશિષોનું આપણે આ દુનિયામાં અને આપણા ઘરોમાં સ્વાગત કરીએ છીએ. તેમને યાદ કરી તેમનો સત્કાર કરીએ છે. તેમણે કરેલી અદ્રશ્ય મદદ માટે તેમને આપણો…
Zoroastrians all over the world celebrate the last ten days of their religious calendar year, as the Muktad. Generally, Muktad is viewed in a very limited way as the days of remembering the dead. This is not so. The Muktad is a joyous occasion for welcoming the souls and the Fravashis to this world and…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]As Parsis, we feel doubly blessed with special occasions repeating twice in the same year – take for instance our Birthday and New Year! We understand that this is the result of following different calendars, but this New Year let’s enrich our understanding further about the very root of our most celebrated festival…
Sunday, 7th August, 2016 marks the first day of the holy Muktad or Fravardegan days. The last 10 days of the Shehanshai Zoroastrian calendar (i.e., Roj Astad to Aneran and the five days of the Gatha) are very significant to all practicing Zoroastrians as these are considered to be very holy. Doctrinally it is believed…