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1. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Welcome all to Arbab Rustam Guiv Darbe Mehr Zoroastrian House of British Columbia Hamaa Anjuman Jashan! Hamaspathmaedem Gahambar, Vahishtoisht Gatha,1376 Y.Z. (Shehenshahi) Roj Bahman, Maah Shahrivar 1386 (Fasli) Roj Aneran, Mah Farvardin, 1377 (Kadmi)

2. Ba Yaareeye Ahuraa Mazdaa With the Help Of Ahura Mazda Andeesh-e-Nik Good Thoughts Goftaar-e-Nik Good Words Kerdaar-e-Nik Good Deeds Atamuh Humata Good Thoughts Atxuh Hukhta Good Words atSrawh Hvarshta Good Deeds Maadar-e-Vatan Iran A Zarathushtri Pilgrimage By Ervad Sohrab Pirojshah Dastur

4. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts What does word “Jashan” mean? “The word Jashan is another form of Yazashna or Ijashna meaning a homage of praise, from the root ‘yaz’ to praise, to worship.”

5. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts • “The Object of the Public Jashans • is twofold: • To offer thanks to the Almighty (Ahura Mazda) • for His bountiful blessings • and to pray for a continuance of the same. • To a great extent they are Thanks-giving services.”

6. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts 2. The public Jashans are intended to cement the tie of brotherhood. Not only physical brotherhood, but spiritual brotherhood.

7. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts The celebrant says in the recital of the Dibaache that: “the reward of all his prayers may go to the treasury of Ahura Mazda i.e., for the good of all His fellow-creatures.”

8. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts • In this spirit, let us all gather together in this • Beautiful Arbab Rustam Guiv Darbe Mehr • Zoroastrian House of British ColumbiaCelebration • to say thanks to Ahura Mazda and • to increase His treasury • with Humata (Good Thoughts), • Hukhta (Good Words) • and Hvarshta (Good Deeds) • for the good of all mankind!

9. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts The Farohar Picture you see on all slides is the art of two people: The original picture was created by late ERUCH  HORMUSJI  PATEL in 1998, my nephew’s father-in-law, incorporating 101 Ahura Mazda Names in Gujarati, a very novel idea!

11. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts I publicized it in Z-Lists in September 2000 and appealed to some young Zs to convert the 101 Ahura Mazda Names from Gujarati into English and/or Persian. In October 2000, I was so thrilled to receive the above picture from young Ervad Pashin Madan, Dubai, UAE, who converted it into English 101 Ahura Mazda Names. I am privileged to use this unique Farohar picture as the background on all the slides!

13. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts This Hamaa Anjuman Jashan A Unique Participatory Experience! This will not be a Traditional Jashan! My apologies to all who are expecting such a Jashan!

14. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Instead, we will have a unique experience of Mobed(s) and you all participating in the Jashan prayers and understanding a little about what these beautiful prayers mean!

15. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Please note that all the implements and offerings for this Jashan are the same as those used in a Traditional Jashan,

16. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Including Atash burning in the Afargaanyu with Sukhad (sandal wood) and Lobaan (incense) And Parsi Deevas (Floating Candles).

17. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts we have 7 Traditional Parsi Deevaas (floating candles) to represent Daadaar Ahura Mazda and His six Ameshaashpands who are invoked many times to be present in the Jashan ceremony in the prayers we usually recite. Ahura Mazda Vohu Mana Ardibehesht Sheherevar Asfandaard Kordaad Amardaad Ahura Mazda And His Six Ameshaashpands

18. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Proposed Agenda for this Jashan Total Time ONE HOUR – alarms will sound after that! We will have 26 Behdins (Good Religion followers) from you all who have volunteered to assist us in this Jashan.

19. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Proposed Agenda for this Jashan Total Time ONE HOUR – alarms will sound after that! They will recite selected paras of the Jashan prayers in English translations alternately with the Mobed(s) who in turn will recite the selected paras of the original Jashan prayers.

20. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts In order to replicate the spiritual environment of a traditional Parsi/Irani Agiary or Atash Behram we experience during our visits, it is a sign of respect to cover our heads during this Jashan ceremony.

21. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Let us start our Jashan Prayers. Hamaa Zor (Let us be united!) Greeting This is the age old traditional greeting among Mobeds performing Jashan ceremony.

22. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Hamaa Zor (Let us be united!) Greeting Two of them face one another, hold out their two hands in vertical position, and first insert their right hands between the two hands of the other reciting: “Hamaa Zor” meaning “May we be united”

23. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts and then sliding out their hands, they reinsert their left hands between the two hands of the other reciting: “Hamaa Asho Bade” meaning “May we be united in righteousness”!

24. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts This Hamaa Zor greeting is to cement the physical and spiritual brotherhood among the Jashan participants. So, let us all do the Hamaa Zor with our neighbors.

25. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Hum Bandagi – 2 Yathas and 1 Ashem Vohu Let us now join hands in a big chain with all participants starting with Mobed(s) and let us pray together (Hum Bandagi) two Yathaas and one Ashem Vohu prayers. First, Behdin 1 will recite Yathaa Ahu Vairyo translation, followed by Behdin 2 reciting Ashem Vohu translation:

26. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Behdin 1 – Ahura Mazda adzam aruha Yathaa Ahu Vairyo Translation Just as an elected President acts according to his will, so does the Dasturaan Dastur by means of righteousness acts according to his own will.

27. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Behdin 1 – Ahura Mazda adzam aruha The gift of Vohu-manah (i.e. Good mind) is for those working for Ahura Mazda of this world;

28. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Behdin 1 – Ahura Mazda adzam aruha He who constitutes himself to be the protector or the nourisher of the poor accepts the sovereign rule of the entire world of Hormazd.

29. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Behdin 2 – Vohu Mana anam uhoW Ashem Vohu Translation Righteousness is the best good and it is happiness.

30. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Behdin 2 – Vohu Mana anam uhoW Happiness is to him who is righteous for the sake of the best righteousness.

31. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Yathaa Ahu Vairyo Prayer: (All Recite) Yathaa Ahu Vairyo athaa ratush ashaat chit hachaa, Vangheush dazdaa manangho shyaothananaam angheush Mazdaai, Khshathremchaa Ahuraai aa yim dregubyo dadat vaastaarem. (Recite twice)

32. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Ashem Vohu Prayer: (All Recite) Ashem Vohu Vashistem asti Ushtaa asti, Ushtaa ahmaai, Hyat ashaai Vahishtaai ashem.

33. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Hamaa Zor Greeting And let us now perform the Hamaa Zor Greetings again with our neighbors. “Hamaa Zor” “Hamaa Asho Bade”

34. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts • A Jashan has three parts: • Jashan Dibaache (Introduction/forward) • 3 or more Kardaas for Ahura Mazda and other Yazatas • Three Aafrins (Blessings) • We will perform each of these three parts.

35. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts • A. Jashan Dibaache (Introduction/forward) • Let us now start • with Jashan Prayers • with its Dibaache. • Behdin 3 will now recite • translations of some paras from Dibaache:

36. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Behdin 3 – Ardibehesht tSvhabIdra In the name of God, the benevolent, the merciful, the loving. May this dedication reach the righteous Fravashi of Daadaar Ahura Mazda. May the ritual be successfully accomplished. May the glory of the good religion of the Mazda-worshippers spread throughout the seven continents (of the earth).

37. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Behdin 3 – Ardibehesht tSvhabIdra May the inhabitants of the cities of Burnaby, and greater Vancouver and British Columbia, have prosperity and success, and their souls delight and joy.

38. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Behdin 4 – Shehrevar rawErvhvC b) Behdin 4 will now recite translations of some paras from Dibaache: On behalf of whom, I have performed the yasna, consecrated the darun (sacred bread) and regularly conducted the offering under the sovereignty of its own watch and day.

39. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Behdin 4 – Shehrevar rawErvhvC May the ceremony collectively go into the treasury of the radiant and glorious Creator Ahura Mazda and Ameshaaspands (the Bountiful Immortals).

40. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Behdin 4 – Shehrevar rawErvhvC May this ceremony, from all of us, be acceptable to the righteous fravashis and may it be our protector, benefactor, keeper-at-bay of harm and affliction, and the fulfiller of boons.

41. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts c) Pazand Prayers of Dibaache: Chief Priest, Zaotar, will now pray the first 6 paras of Dibaache.

42. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts d) Invoking the names of the Departed Ones, of Zarathushtra and Zarathushtri stalwarts from Gayomard to the present day. This Jashan is for and requested by Arbab Rustam Guiv Darbe Mehr Zoroastrian House of British Columbia Hamaa Anjuman (the whole community) and so they are all invoked in this Jashan.

43. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Behdin 5 – Aspandaard drAdnapsa e) Behdin 5 will now recite translations of some paras from Dibaache: Especially among the immortal souls, may the soul of Zarathushtra Spitaman, of righteous Fravashi, be remembered here. ...

44. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Behdin 5 – Aspandaard drAdnapsa Among the immortal souls, may the souls of the members of ZSBC Hamaa Anjuman Families be especially remembered here. May all righteous fravashis be remembered here.

45. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Behdin 5 – Aspandaard drAdnapsa By the request of the ZSBC Hama Anjuman at whose instance the ceremony is being performed, may its merit reach this Hamaa Anjuman.

46. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts f) Pazand Prayers of Dibaache: Chief Priest, Zaotar, will now invoke the names of Zarathushtri stalwarts.

47. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Behdin 6 – Khordaad dAdrox g) Behdin 6 will now recite translations of some paras from Dibaache: May all fravashis of the righteous, from Gayomard (the First Man) to Soshyos (the Maker of the Renovation), be collectively remembered here on the fourth, tenth, thirtieth and anniversary day.

48. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Behdin 6 – Khordaad dAdrox May all fravashis of the righteous, from Gayomard to Soshyos, be collectively remembered here: the fravashis of those who are, who have been, and who will be, of the born and unborn ones,

49. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Behdin 6 – Khordaad dAdrox of this country and foreign lands, of the initiate males and females, of the minors and grown-ups, — of any one who has passed away from this earth belonging to the Good Religion..

50. atSrawh atxuh atamuh Avesta Script Read Right To Left Hvarshta Hukhta Humata Good Good Good Deeds Words Thoughts Behdin 7 – Amardaad dAdrama h) Behdin 7 will now recite translations of some paras from Dibaache: May the fravashis of the righteous, the fravashis of the brave, the fravashis of the victorious, the fravashis of the successful,