Mazda’s welcoming source

We just got our first issue of Parsiana. What a joy reading such diverse and enlightening articles about this wonderful faith we have chosen for ourselves. Being in touch with those who have had the privilege of inheriting this great faith helps us grow in the understanding and appreciation of it.

We, the Comunidade Asha, are a small but growing group of Brazilians who, after study and conscientious pondering, have decided that Asho Zara­thushtra’s message best answers our soul’s quest for meaning by giving us illuminated eyes to see this world as good and progressing toward perfection. This understanding of life gives a sound and revolutionary ground for devotion, ethics and philosophy, a complete set of tools to work for the improvement of ourselves and of society!

Having first gotten in touch with the Good Religion while I was studying theology in the USA in 1984, I read what I could find on it, tried to get in touch with Zarathushtrians and finally, in 2000, decided to have my navjote and start spreading what I could not live without anymore to my fellow citizens in Brazil. Since then I have translated the Gathas and small parts of the Avesta into Portuguese, published a book on the Good Religion called Fagulhas do Fogo and dedicated my life to learn and teach the Deen.

I realize that not everyone in the Zarathushtrian community is okay with the coming in of outsiders and try to understand their reasons. What I know for sure is that Ahura Mazda is the welcoming source of all life and Asho Zarathushtra’s message is the most universal and open of all messages! This I know in the innermost of my heart and through reason!

We would love to grow in unity with all Zarathushtrians of the world!

ONALDO ALVES PEREIRA

Goiás, Brazil