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Zoro vastu shastra !

and the Dadgah fire, everyone keeps at home ?

Nope. Home fires are not consecrated. They are tended to by normal Zoroastrians. The senior lady of the house. Not Mobeds.

 

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Parsi Memories : Daily Loban Ritual

By Rusi Sorabjee One of the daily ritual in a Parsi/Irani homes in India of the early 20th Century, that brings back happy memories of our childhood, of a bygo

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[Sharma Ji]

Parsi Memories : Daily Loban Ritual

By Rusi Sorabjee One of the daily ritual in a Parsi/Irani homes in India of the early 20th Century, that brings back happy memories of our childhood, of a bygo

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Ye toh har community ki kahani hai, I imagine.. us dharmis for sure.

I remember granny and her daily readings of the hanuman chalisa in front of her favouriye ganesh ji murti. She's get mad if one of us kids stormed into the room screaming and shouting, baccha playing stuff.

Then she'd emerge from the room, all wobbly (old lady knee thing).. and buy us an ice cream or chocolates (think she felt bad for screaming at us)

My mum and aunt too, they do these elaborate poojas and etc on events.. last of that generation, almost.. at least here.

Aaj kal sab modern style jaldi jaldi ho gaya hai, my cousins etc.. at least half of them, no sense of tradition or too elaborate ritualbaazi.. seedha simple pooja karo, then its time to party (Diwali)

Greatly diminished, the old ways of doing stuff.. it'll all be gone in another 3 or 4 generations.. so goes life.

 

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Ye toh har community ki kahani hai, I imagine.. us dharmis for sure.

I remember granny and her daily readings of the hanuman chalisa in front of her favouriye ganesh ji murti. She's get mad if one of us kids stormed into the room screaming and shouting, baccha playing stuff.

Then she'd emerge from the room, all wobbly (old lady knee thing).. and buy us an ice cream or chocolates (think she felt bad for screaming at us)

My mum and aunt too, they do these elaborate poojas and etc on events.. last of that generation, almost.. at least here.

Aaj kal sab modern style jaldi jaldi ho gaya hai, my cousins etc.. at least half of them, no sense of tradition or too elaborate ritualbaazi.. seedha simple pooja karo, then its time to party (Diwali)

Greatly diminished, the old ways of doing stuff.. it'll all be gone in another 3 or 4 generations.. so goes life.

Happily for us, modern Parsi girls do it too.

I have always been struck by the complete absence of fire in houses of my Hindu friends.

Sam told me they (Jats) have it. But thats more in the form of the household chulha.

 

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Please note dhoop or agarbatti is not exactly fire.

At least a diya (divo for us) qualifies.

 

[Sharma Ji]

Happily for us, modern Parsi girls do it too.

I have always been struck by the complete absence of fire in houses of my Hindu friends.

Sam told me they (Jats) have it. But thats more in the form of the household chulha.

Nahi, hota bhi bhot hai, but on the decline hai.. mum lights diya and etc every morning.

More prevalent and more traditional in Jaat gharaanas for sure, hum ko toh urbanization and modern lifestyle kha gayi, kaccha chaba gayi, sadly.

 

[Sharma Ji]

Please note dhoop or agarbatti is not exactly fire.

At least a diya (divo for us) qualifies.

Yes, a proper diya, hand rolled wick, tel.. regularly cleaned.. after bath and before food.. har din.

Max I do is light an aggarbatti or something, and its mostly for the nice sugandh

 

[Sharma Ji]

omg, its complete !

Ramy ka latest handmade, this time a global 7500 binnus zet !!

 

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Yes, a proper diya, hand rolled wick, tel.. regularly cleaned.. after bath and before food.. har din.

Max I do is light an aggarbatti or something, and its mostly for the nice sugandh

Divo. Glass with oil, and those wicks with cork floats (on the right). Placed either like that only, on inside these decorative silver protective (wind) holders with Zoroastrian motifs (hand cut and beaten).

 

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Loban.

 

[Sharma Ji]

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Divo. Glass with oil, and those wicks with cork floats (on the right). Placed either like that only, on inside these decorative silver protective (wind) holders with Zoroastrian motifs (hand cut and beaten).

yess, those floaty cork rings lifebuoy thingies waali wicks !

they go out on the regular but, on DIwali night, with a silver Lakshmi and Ganesh Ji ka coin dipped in oil.. that fire supposed to last the night and into the next day, then doing biig wick.. nevermind those don't last either, but log effort krte hain.. so kudos to mum lmao

 

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yess, those floaty cork rings lifebuoy thingies waali wicks !

they go out on the regular but, on DIwali night, with a silver Lakshmi and Ganesh Ji ka coin dipped in oil.. that fire supposed to last the night and into the next day, then doing biig wick.. nevermind those don't last either, but log effort krte hain.. so kudos to mum lmao

Nope. They last as long as the oil is there. Over one night.

 

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The rolled cotton or long wick held by wire clamp is seen in Agyaris.

 

[Sharma Ji]

there's also "makar sakranti" , ever heard of it ?

here its tradition to behead a til ka ladoo in the form of a goat, a crude goat shape.. I have no idea where that came from, it might be unique to us lot... warna the proper way is real goat, old dharmi style

rig vedic etc cow sacrifices were real too, it was always the bull that was revered.. cow to bhot baad me aayi hai.

 

[Sharma Ji]

@Krishna with Flute ..

bull hai na main ?

cow is new, right ?