Ilm-e-Khshnoom - Traditional Zoroastrianism: Tenets of the Religion

performed all ceremonies entrusted to them fully and faultlessly. Alas! Today very few of such Mobeds are left
and it is a shuddering thought as to what will happen to the holy Iranshah after the present generation.
It was very unfortunate that Baheramshahji's teachings did not have its impact on the Mobeds of Navsari.
Whilst Udwada had quite a number of Khshnoomist - Mobeds, Navsari had very few.
One very significant history Baheramji Unwalla narrates is that before advent of Baheramshahji, the
Udwada Mobeds were also avoiding the performance of the whole ceremonies and Ervad Baheramji's
insistence and propaganda against the curtailment and cutting out of the ceremonies had created a furore
amongst the then Mobeds of Udwada.
WHAT IS THE GENERAL SITUATION OF
KRIYAKAAM AND MOBEDS TO-DAY?
More Behdins desire to have performed more ceremonies. But greater their desire, lesser the number of
Mobeds. Pav Mahal Mobeds are left in Udwada and Surat only. The Mobeds performing smaller ceremonies
like Afringan Farokshi, Stoom appear to be many but most of them are office-going and then there is a lot of
deceiving in the performance of the smaller ceremonies. For instance: Afringaan 15 minutes instead
of minimum 40; so also Farokshi, 15 minutes instead of 40 to 50. Had the Dastoors and Mobeds drawn
their attention to IIm-e-Khshnoom, like the Udwada Mobeds, and had Khshnoom been made a part of
the curriculum in Madresas, the situation would have been entirely different. But Dastoors went to
Europe to become scholars, and then to America to eat ham; and children weak in studies are made
Mobeds……. Being scholars, the Dastoors do nothing to prevent the deceptions committed in many Agiaries.
Let them drop out the scholastic ego and begin to serve the faithful Behdins by providing them full and
faultless ceremonies.
(Parsi Pukar January ’99 Vol. 4; No. 7)
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