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As
Zoroastrians we believe in "Good Thoughts, Good Words and Good Deeds."
We also believe in Fravashi or Farohar, which means that the divine
essence of God exists in all human beings irrespective of their
caste, color, or creed. Hence we are expected to regard all other
human beings as our spiritual brothers and sisters. Rabindranth
Tagore, the famous Indian poet and philosopher, in his book The
Religion of Man, emphasizes this point. He writes, "The consciousness
of God transcends the limitation of race and gathers together all
human beings within one spiritual circle of union. Zarathushtra
was the first prophet who emancipated religion from exclusive narrowness
of tribal God of a chosen people and offered it to the universal
man. This is a great fact in the history of religion." The book
so much impressed the Trustees of Bombay Parsi Punchayet that Chapter
V dealing with Prophet Zarathushtra was reproduced as a booklet
for the benefit of the community. In the Preface of the booklet
it is mentioned, 'The teachings of Zarathushtra have been very ably
brought out in this chapter in their pristine purity." I would urge
my fellow Zoroastrians to read this booklet. A few months ago, a
Zoroastrian lady in her letter to me expressed her opinion that
she did not like the presence of non-Zoroastrians at our religious
ceremonies because their Atash-e-Urva pollutes our ceremonies. As
to what this Atash-e-Urva is, she did not explain. To the best of
my knowledge it forms no part of Zoroastrian Theology. The point
that struck me is how one can easily fall into a trap of having
contradictory beliefs at one at the same time. |
