Dec 1972

r mber 1972 . IX No.2 50 Raise «€*«: mt*dmni old wiftdon^ ^LECi'RONlC ENGfNMHu A-1. E. R. A. 1. E. E. atu.aij 1 Mar. Web. OaMME Kadia (Micsr. < 7- *1 'f"- ;> */ K VOL. IX. No. 2. - A If < December 1972 ' -t T" CONTENTS EditonaF (Election & Aftermath) Fire-Worship & Fire ROJ, MAH, GHA ia Calen^r Mf < Late Mr, Naval Framjse Panchayafs What Next •‘AKHAND PARSA” ¦-'»! hfoaagitig Editor : P. B. WARDEN, M. S. (Bcha.). D. P. M. (Bom.) ADVISORY BOARD . f: Mr. P. W. E. Cassod, Ad^0<^t&^^Bgoon, Aden, Nairobi, Bongbay. Mrs. GgoI K. Shavaksha f ® Late Dr; Sohrab H. Badiwafet^ Fh.D^ , Mr. Desai, M.A., B.Ed. Mr. f^botirz ^iariman, [Ardiitect] Mr. Homi Buijof Dballa, M.A. [Harvard] ||B Mr. Mahyisr Byramji Patel Yearly subscription^fof 12’^ isime8t .Rs. 6]- for Jnl^d; Sh. 12/6 for U. K,; aad$ V;S. A. a i*' Office Copy: 50 Paise ^haa ^ta^^Babaram, ; \ wi-rawiwwl Sha^arshet Marg, Bombayr-2..BR: ® ft" 7® • p ,1^5 ’ '•* We regret the passing aw^ of Dr. Sohrab Batliwala Published and edited by Edit-Proprietor R B. Wardoa from 621‘Jagannath Shankai^iiet Marg, Bombay-2 B R, and printed at Kalefd^Art Printers, S-B, Shalimar Industrial Estate Matunga, Bombay-19 and mimeographed at 62-Jagannath SBankarshet Marg, Bombay-2. BR* ¦w " ¦ 1 •*¦ '¦ iEDITORIAt. aSCTION AND AJTJifl Affl. '"V • 0 elections took place in quick, succession and baye given the community a gift of two quic^ thinkers who are already on tho move for some pagor tasks lying unattended for years for lack of energy in stagiatod Trusteeship of abnormally long duration. Di ere was tussle for election bn both •cea^ons. It iw-s a healthy sigi of good and useful psrao nso competing to render service to our doped community, .by and largo apathetic and unconcornod in its immediate future. Evon a bad instruaent can carve out a good i’iagQ,;.such is our. selection this time. With the handlo of outdited, restricted and constricted voting powers limited to.,335 per sms comprising ’’F’* register 170 and ”1” register ite votdro it L.; has done well in bringing in good nsw blood even thou^ the nystem of controlled deetion was and is an objectionable item calling for urgent reform to bring it in line with the present day democratic 6ct up of modern societyIbis election we take as'a happy accident but accidents cannot be accepted as method of choiwe Choice should lie with all those ^0 can choosG and not just a handful wbo would love controlled rhoosing. With that id^ Parsiana has started the most natural iSRarollary to the natural aspiration of .people and named it &HAND PARSt, a movement that ivill satisfy the urge to be recognised without which life becomes dtil as dodo.*. Dodo means silly and derecognised people do degenorabe to silly low. Let UB ria© to a. hi^ with kKHixND FARM. 9ai?a.yyx Vak^ » OK new Trustee has publ ioly acknowledged in principle the need for expansion of exlectorate how much and how far Bwy bp derided bur .rafter but expand it must to furthar avoid controlled election in fairness and justice to ^1 pooplof PARSIAM December 1972* 1.'I ¦In "the Bombay Pa3?’ei'Association m'e eting ft s Ere sidont W. Js Jeha ’ngir Sirpff urged^^'t^ chahgos must he brought into ¦'¦'.th.b or king'mat ho ds of fh.e fhnchayat and con^jared it to public sector where necessary papers are untraceable. Its t dft^loyment board- meetihg ii not hetd? for 4 yGars/ 'lhat is i in thfe fitness of facts* Instead oFefl^lbymait more and more omployathts have been .Wrown ^but fro^^ ,Godreg- Memorial rti'^ss w th© consent and; connivance of trustees. Trustee* ship is enfcabled when its own servant can, dominM3t over thaa. • This is an anomalous thou^ unmistakeabie sign of its. degeaeracy end a groat danger to the integrity, of the community. *asked about irking of Par si. Panels ya-t Ifr* r. P. Khambatta has given a non “descript reply tot present working of the Panchayat ¦ i s just like its past. The'-- audience in enthusiasm of meeting their new/.lTiistee appiandedliis wisdom and missed its meaning Delphian Oracle whom aftked whir, who will win the war replied l*t^e Greaks the, Ror^Hs .Gon<^uer Can** which virtually mogns anything a Greak or a Roman would like ’..to believb. ‘Ihis is all asiiie. It was'a mi state on th e part of the audience to put such a question. Khambatta'is really a likeable and sincere person ,ani' will give-some conitructure direction to Panto yat. His idea of a committee of Mders. is landable if it could be nade Ax-rkth workable. A Committee of youths working with then may strike a happy mean. \ get Parsi youths wanting'to wark hard is justifiably refut^j^ refuted by him. In my -talk with hi«. I assured him that yo^ youth are auxious to pour in their energy but know pot vhert where to and wwi^rse still how to.Ther barriers which must be broken and that task lies with elders to make' them accept the ^^gnity of labour^ dignity which th^ey seek and find not; because those who advise do not labour * F** and those wbn labout do not guide. We all Parsi^ must l 5^P I R 1 WORSHIP 2end It 5 of As found by some^the Orientalist a, th e^ word " 2end "does not apply to any language whether dead or living -and never belonged I ¦ to any of the languages; or dialects of ancient Persia, (see 5hrhang"i*Jehangiri, the Persian dictionary). It means, as in one sense correctly stated, "a cooraentary or explanation, * but it also means what the Orientalists seem to have missed,viz. of the "RSNUERIMG- OF UTE EXOTERIC SmiMCES", the veil used to conceal the correct meaning of the Zen-(d)*2ar texts, the sacer­ dotal language in use amoung the initiates of archxic India. Found now in several undedipherable inscriptions it is still used end studied unto thia day in the secret coranunities of the Mstem adepts, and called by them**according to the locality* Zend-Zar and Brahmst or Dova*EhaiShayeu do not think, fire worship is borrosved from the iodas. worship, or rather i^verenoe for fire, was in the remote agos universal. Fire and water are the elements in which the active and passive productive, powers of the universe are respectively centered. Saya HipJ)ocrates! (Divite 1*4) ” All living creatures animals and men originate, from the two Principles, differing in potency but .agreeing in purpose. fire gives life to all things , but Mother water nourishes them. Has our friend who seems to show such an evident scorn for the emblems of his own religLon, ever studied those of other people? Has he ever been told that there never was a religion but paid reverence to the Sin and fire as the fittest embleijQof tife hence of the life*giving p'rinciple; nay, that thire is"not, Se.y3 HipJ)ocrxtes! (Divite 1*4) Fire" I mean fire and vjater,. ..Father n ever studied th os , even r 9 6> PARSIAM December 1972.6 at present, one single creed on our globe but has, preserved this ruverencG in'its ritualism, tnou^i the onblems with,..timp been changed and disfigured? Tne only essential difference’- between the modern Par si Mo beds and the Christian clergy liQs in this, the devotees of the former being pmfoundly atta..nhed‘' to their old religion thou^, they may have forgotten its “ have honestly left esoteric Zoroastrianism standiig \:'ho Judges on mere appehrancos " unveiled in its apparent nokedhesos; iliiie-Oiristian;.!^^^ . less unsophisticated, kept perpetually modifying Christianity in exact proportion as science advanced and th© ^rld became - enlistened until finally theirf religion pow; stands under All the r< igi.ons*from the Taidip, th© ^roastrian and the Jewish Cre^s down to mi^em Christianity, the progeny of the last, sprang from archaic. Ma^ ifegianism, or the ReliedQn based upon the knowledge o.f occult- ‘ OP THE SDN, fct ritualism A before the Jury of the isorld b 'f-i more a thick, withal very insecure, taask nature, called semetimes THE ” .MOON, AND STARS. , POwell Meredith in his WORShlF correspondence touching the Divine origin of tte Christian Religion, ** with the- Hear of IBhaplode, says. < ¦ Your sacred books, Sir, are replete with phrases used in fir-^” wor^ip -nd with narrations of the appearances of a fire^-god^ It vas as a flame of fire thot the-Jewish Deity first appeared It was with fire he go.ve the law, on Mount Siiiai. It was the God, that answered as fire who was to be the true god in . jt The al tar- Ihe sam e fi r e, wi th incense, a... was carried by the to Mose's. P5 the contest held between ELigeh and the prophets of was as'fire the same God answered his servant David. of incense displayed this fire. perfume used by hGithens in their worship priests in their censers and this^ fire once riraculonsly k-illi nd PARSIANA December 1972. 7. !/ some of them. I'ai the burnt offerings of the J©»^, like those' of other nations, originated in fire wrship, the "worshippers supposing that the God in fire devoured their sacrifices as food, whether vegetable or animal, huDZtn or bestiale In a chariot of - fire, and horees of fire precisely lilpe the heathen charict and horses of the Sun, Mizah went up to heaven. V/e are told that, Jehovah went before the Jews’ as a consuming fire; and r/e are assured, not only by the Jew, that his Jehovah Aliem is a consuming fire eten a Jealous God" (or, as some translate the latter expression the burmihg God. ..4) but also by the Qiristiecn, that Theosor Zeus (%ul, Jowe, Jot©, Jupitor, etc.) is as < consuming fire; Wc find that th© sacred fire of Jehovoh was in Zion, as well as in the temple Testa, or Minerva (Isa,XXXI, 9), and as a still more remarkable proof of the identity of the Jewish fire-^*worship, with that; of the Gentiles, we find that FIRE OP JEHOVAH, ON THE BRAZEN ALTAR, TO BE KEPT ALwAXS ' BURNING*^ WAS NEVER TO BE ALLOW TO GO ODTXLEV. VI^13). • Precisely in like mnner was the sacred fire kept burning in the The ffegi of Persia -and In the temple temple of Diana, among the Persians. Chaldea had the care of pres ering the holy fire. of Ceres and of Appollo the sacred fire was always kept burning. The preservation of the fire in the temple of Minerva was entrus* ted to a number of young women, just as the VEST;1L VIRGINS W’E CH^WrED WTH THE PRESERVATION OF THS SilCRED FIRE IN THS- TWLE OF VESTA UNDER PENALTY OF DEATH. sacred fire is much older than the Hebrew,mythology. Sicurus tells us that it v>as di^rived by the Roman from the Greeks, and by them from the ii^yptions (Who borrowed it from the Chaldees.) There is very little doubt that it is nefurly as old as Sun*^ worship, and that fire when worshipped wa / The custom of preserving the Diodorus s orginstlly i^egorded as 8< PARSIANA December 1972•J an emblam of the Solar DeXty. C3od to be a body of fire. By all his worshippers and to have cremptied not only all other luminous /bodies but the, whole Biiverse. ^He was thoT^t to be the father of li^ts o.nd to, have' ^1 other luminaries-, such Q-s the Moon, stars, and-so on under hds- control and guidance. olX the ancients imagined the considered to have existed from xMernitv, I he 'svas The Subject is of a tremendous interest to every thinking Parsed but he has to holp himself if he would learn more IS NOR DEAD YgT; AND UNDhR; W LIFilx^ OP MOPhRN ZOROASTRLINISM THh PULS^ OP THE WI OP OLD STILL BEATS, have- endeavoured as briefly as possible to give a correct thou^ a iTQry st^) er f i cial , truei Magianism. ¦ HIS REDISIOr \i0 I 9 Ihore is not a sentence authority cannot be shown. viev? of the purport and spirit of in this for .Tvhieh >e (H. P. Blavatsky) Theosophist Vol.IV July 1883 On higher planes everything is vhat down her© we call lumifcous, and above here a Certain level everything may be said to be. permeated by fire, yet not at all such fire as we know on the physical plane, d^at we call by that name doT/n here cannot exist without something which either burns or ^ovs, and it is only a kind of reflection or lower expression of a higher abstract thing which we, cannot sense. Try to think of a fire xhich cannot bum but ie in a liquid form, something like water. This was known to the followers cf'the first great Zoroaster, for they had this fire whidi burned no fuel on.thoir altars, a sacred i. fire by means of vhich they symbolised divine life* PAKSIANA Decwber 1972* 9.The only One wy of reaching the Logos is along the line of fire, and the ahcient Parsis knew this well& raised themselves until they were one with the fire, so as to read! Him by way of it. way in ijshich it can be done is through the assistance of certain ang^iOBbut at this period of tho world we are so ^ossly 1 material tet very few can stand the ordeal. Ihe first Zoroastd^ ’had around him many dbo were able to take that way, and thou^ under present conditions out lower ^^icle s would .. prbbably bo destroyed if we diould oake such an attempt, in new races and on other planets, we diould be able to take that way again. All this sotsnds straiige and weird and infumprehmsible, because it deals with cchditions Tfeichjare ut-^ly unknown on the physical plane, but the student of occultism will find that in th© course bf his progress be has to face nany things ihich cannot at ali be eipresSed in words> * ( C. W* II. in Innea* Life ”1/221*32:) see and feel water and The sea is /’water" only in That sea ia not all water. The purpose of God is to make nan survive, at least on earth at present. In search of food man dives deep under crushing atmos'* pheric pressure seeking ’edible flora in the bottom of the ocean, ihere he is a^in in a Quiet Corner to wonder the sense that water is the dominant substance orosent Acttally it is a solution of gases rtnd salts: 1,346 cubic metres of sea water contains 128 million tons of salts, up to 45 tons of silver, 15) to 25 tons of gold, up to seven tons of uranium, and more than half a million tons of lime< X in. PAESUB December 1972.le. Mvu. leufsms&a MUun* PBESIMT UStk .. . . ... J....... .......... ... . . II'. . .... ........ . ¦ ' • ¦ In 1927 Navy was first i I In 35,29 he joined t ¦ c 6 Here he^feame ih contact with ISr* Sorahji 15:. Pochkhamwala took personal inter ©st 9 ffe^der HoWy. Inte^^^ preside and Chairman of its recent conference (1972) died at Agra on 25th November 1972 at the a^e of 62• ... He was bom in Navsari in 351^ and went to Simla for schooling where his unde Dlnabah feuBjee was a prominent figihre thrown open to Indians he appHed and p^sed wi'fe 400 marks (the next candidate gettizlg 250)i Ihe latter was sdected because Naval had hot ddn© any course in sci ence. I^kdon Iheaires as^ mahag^ of the thoi Sne and only Ehgli^ . CitteoB House in Delhi. Pochkhanawala and joined the Central Bank of India in Bomiay as one officer traAnee. in him and in 3533'jappointed him junior officer touring all over India and in ch 3539 posted him in as Agent. At that time Agra headquarter had only thre^^branches,- namely, Hathra and Morena. Krom that small nidus W• Pramjee nade U. P., M. P. and Kajesthan peopl^^^J^ and by 1942 set up 43 branches all Brotxnd Agra to Hodel, Pamkhabad/^Ratlam, Ifensur, Ihdore , Aligs-rh, Jaipur, Ajmer, Hjjani etc > rf. Despite his meriterious activities he got no increaent until 1944 he became Chief ^ent when he was put in *par with other older Chief Agents. Selfless wrk boldj'y executed was the characteristic of his activities in all spheres of,like as PJffiSUlU December 1972.1 as Rotarian, Ezecutire of several organisations and also as banker. .Work and duty are Js/hn’s Cutties. Recognition*of man work an4.ma*its he looked upon as duty of the Head office and went -on working dilig^intly. This stands in strikirig contrast ’s went-on working diligently. to present day atti.tude .of. ea^jloyG^rt^J'ra.nting increment before a«±ievement. r * retired from the Bank and started his ov?n bufeinoss of shoe industry on a small scale and expanded it gradually to sspply to Bata (India and Ceylon), Flex ( Kanpur)-and Strata -Trading Corporation' for ’Export. Warden’s (Mysore) Pvt. Ltd- were'his local distriliutors in Bombay. He -was one of the Found.!er memberB of gotary GLub of J^gra in President ¦Furthermore he vas *' 1939 and later its Treasurer, Secretary, Ticc-Presidont and In 1955 for G*)lden Jublee year of Rotary. Club he was conference Secretary and' in 1972 Conference Chairman for District 311. Director, of Rotary Services oYlfour occasions forgone year each. In-.the. Current yo&r he was charrnan International Youth . Ext^fwipn and Contact Cbcmittee ( Rotary Interhatioral District 311,) ¦ 'Rotajty International mbrid President (1972-73) Rotarian Roy Hickman and his Ann Dorothy Hickrmn paid condolence visit tfei from Delhi. « The Archbishop paid condolence visit and other members of th e (htholic Church and oommunity said nass in the local church for the departed soul. 12. December 5572.Simior members of Jalma (Japanese antiXeprosy ciission) came to the hduse and off or ed Buddhi st prayers. The Rotary Club held condolence visit at dark Shiraz Hotel which the family membors were requested to attend. Four..nuembers spoke va*y foolingy of the meritorious services the deceased had rendered to people of Framjee, Rotaryanne Inner Wheel. jointly with his wife Mrs. Heher « One of th© speakers said i2r. Kramjec served all communities with ©«iv©l humane sensitivity, tho rich, the poor, th© needy and the bandic3^ed< He had seen several of them sobbing ir crying in grateful memory pf his holp to tJaom. Anothcar Rotarian* described Frnmjoc o-s one in whom Gita was ingrained and he lived out Gita in his daily life. , ‘a r Par si Anjuman of ^gra held a condolence raoeti ng on Sunday 3rd December, Mr. Jal ^ulji presided, and the Panthaky of Agr: Anjuman Ervad Snapurji Dastoor delivered and gave a very syn^athetic speech explaning iVa?. Pramjee’s many sided activities for all c'cnraunities and specifically for raOTb-ars of his own enmaunity. He was a pillar of strength to the Snjusan keeping the entire community together with spirit of love and mutual aid He was a pillar of strength to the occasions and New Yea:;; He arranged got “tegether an al 1 r el igi ons Dhy, personally visiting all those incapacitated from joining for reasons of health. and total cohesion of ^roastrians and was or That way he maintained con^lete unity ?ver keen to aprea^(i 13. PARSUNA December 1972.X amongst them knowledge of our religion and continuity of cere­ monies. The knjuman passed a resolution putting on record. Pramjee’s meritorioua services to Nhe community and all its deserving causes. Ifr. Pramjec acted for nany many years as a Trustee and Vice^i’resident of the Par si Anjuman and was its ’’ President from 1968. It was resolved thtt his portrait be unveiled in th© Anjuman prayer hall and his name be included in Ife.amgarhan as "behedin Nayroji bchedin Lhnshershah” ceremonies to be held therein hercaftor. Ifr. in all the Mr. Pramjee acted as secretary of Agra Club for 22 years and the dub was closed for a day in loving memory of his services. Rotorgrann© Meher wife of Late’ W. Naval Slramjoo is an active Rotaryanne since 1941'and is an equally ardent meober jof Inner W Wieel Rotary International. In the current year she is th© Internatioml Inner Wcel represontature and Chairman for India, Nepal and Ceylon. She 18 the founder mmber of Inner Wool GLub ^gra-District Sil­ in the past she has acted a,s Biroctor, Secretary and President from 1966 to 1969 during ^hich she v;as the convener of several iii5)ortant meetings. in 1970 as Inner Wheel council representature she represehtd India Inner Weel council at functions, conventions and confer ence at Hague, Great Britain, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Germany. 4^ P^SIANA December 1972 < 14.All over India she attended Inner V/heel Natior^l Council Meetings from time to time number of Indian Councils for Child Welfare, Cancer,Society, International W.H.O* activities, Agra Women ’s Association, Pounder member of Society for Disabled and Deaf and Wute ^ildreh’ifor whom she organise I and set up a unit in S.N. Medical Colloge of Agra. She is also a member of Cancer Foundation Delhi and several other social works. Husband and Wife - ka ve given their best to Agra and Agra fomambQrs thote with grati ’^de and love, requiting love with all that they could do or give by way of social service akin to a family relation c^omprising all communities. Sie is connoctod al so wi th a Pramjeos - « 3^. Society our Avowed team wor^ki I had. promised him ny I had not Toted for Mr. flavak Vakil. tote but later backed oUt informing him that he did not need my vote Section whii^ I had ^viaafeM. writing hii Oonsent to ay withdra'wal dootrihe. One vote would make no dif^Qi'ence in c>ontrollOd A > <1 He agreed and I hade in Mr. Vakil bad previously flown * Cy freh " doctrine. Ihen it looked like a kite- in the aky because he was not a Trustee and could not get throu^ barriers in the Par si Pancha^t, things are changed and the energetic team cf Dr. GolwaJa, Mr. Khambatta and Vakil are well on their to some HQ^sing scheme. . Ifr. Vakil is above,all a good Zeroastrian with philosophy of ether religicnB to his aid. When first time "So - nu - Mandal" went in for ballots there were throe candidates. Amongst them was Ifr . Jehangir Vinsidalal against whom the controverigy raised was can he be a true Zoroastrian with belief in Theology? Even in those days'-of staunch orthodoxy W*. Baji and Ifr. Vimadalal were elected to the Par si Pancha^ M Cy freft * 15, PAESIAN.^ December 1^72.f MAN -CAK LIV£ WITH-£/^S closed * I M A N CAN 11\/£ .WITH i /ANJ> FEfL THe ce. I V* L* J J «> =AKA"D AR^A s \S f\ )AO\/£Met^T TO Opehf 'TH£ OFTME , PARSfS that OUI\ CoNSTRIOTEL E.i-£cTio^ sysT£.rA geSTRicTE^ To T\£P£t : ¦ 33 6' VOTERS ' ¦ 9 9 T>P£S HOT sAnS CoNT>\TtC>tJS H£C£SSfifl.y- Fof? AN'Et>HCAT£ri SOCIETV lb/ /AOTE BN Tii'Aes- ' ' ¦ = prize loo^ ' ' Ft- ’CATeri SOCIETV I K/ /’y'TW a Kl I i\A t- f " •> HE OF PAKSljANA WH tc »¦ ,. . t^i> ?RiNr f^tiV Phf^-rn£KeoF. ' FI>ITOR,^. oPinioH ‘^WILL BH F/^^AL fill./. ESSAYS SUIiN\lTXl£jfiN^i-l.-Q^ PRoPERTyI SELECT 0^.^ (PaJbNca tsii^ : poST yPDR.'ESS Ay .To , - * . ..^ " P A KSI A/Wi “ 62/ Jaganna-th shan/Ho6i TAtAO, SOM 9 31st January 19^>* PARSIAltt. Dsoember 1972. 16.