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

WHAT IS ILM-E-KHSHNOOM AND WHY?
WHY DOES THE DECOMPOSITION RATE OF
NIRANGDIN'S NIRANG SLOW DOWN ?
BAHERAMJI UNWALLA'S QUESTION.
BAHERAMSHAH SHROFF ENUMERATES FOUR FACTORS –
MOBED'S "ASHOI" THE FOUNDATION OF THE MIRACLE.
[Note: We apologise for a break in this series due to the pressure on the columns. In the July and August
1998 issues, Ervad Saheb Baheramji Unwalla, a mobed disciple of Ustad Saheb Baheramshah Shroff
narrated his experiences about the revelations of IIm-e-Khshnoom on our Kriya-kaam. The August issue
contained some features of the Nirangdin ceremony, arising out of two questions asked by Ervad Saheb
Unwalla to Baheramshahji. The first was related to the hair from Varasiaji's (white bull's) tail, used in the
Varas-ring, a vital 'Aalaat' (an equipment emanating certain divine fields) of our major Pav Mahel ceremonies
like Yazashney, Vendidad, Nirangdin. The second question related to the established miracle of the Nirangdin
ceremony, namely, that the Nirang i.e. the urine of the Varasiaji and other bulls, after passing through the
Nirangdin ceremony, does not decay or decompose for quite a number of years. Let us now go into the
answer of Baheramshahji. - Editor)
We were on certain wonderful features involved in the Nirangdin ceremony. Two metallic vessels
(kandhnu), one containing the water from the Agiary well and the other containing the Nirang i.e. the urine of
Varasiaji and other bulls, are put at a specified place in the sacred orbit where the ceremony is performed.
The performing Mobeds have to direct their eyes on the liquids contained in the two vessels while reciting
certain Avesta words.
Another alluring feature is that the chief Mobed has to cast little consecrated pebbles in the two vessels
while uttering the word "Shyothananaam" at certain specified points and times during the ceremony. (Please
see pages 11-12 of the August '98 issue for more details).
Ervad Saheb Baheramji Unwalla asked Ustad Baheramshahji : Why does the Nirang consecrated in
Nirangdin ceremony remain undecomposed and fresh for years together?
Baheramshahji replied that this was the cumulative effect of certain vibrationary forces and fields
generated during the performance of the ceremony. The main factors contributing the generation of these
holy fields are four, as under:
The FIRST is the recitation and chanting of the marathon 'manthra’s’, covering the whole of the
Yazashney with 72 Ha's, Visperad with 23 Kardeh's and Vendidad with 22 Pargarad's in a set order. Every
Manthra prayer when chanted according to the prescribed rules of procedure and purity, sets into motion
certain subtle vibrations within the person chanting as also out in nature. These vibrations create lines of
certain subtle spiritual and divine forces and form a sacred field structure.
The SECOND factor is the casting of the Mobed's eye-glances on the Nirang contained in the vessel. The
mystical sciences reveal that the eyes of every human emanate a subtle non-physical current. This can
produce certain effect on the things and persons on whom the current falls or runs through. A rough analogy
of this phenomenon is the lighting of a bulb when the electricity runs through its wires. The flow from the eyes
of a holy saint can enlighten the psyche of a person who receives it. The eyes of Swami Vivekanand and
Raman Maharshi had that power. This eye-current is known as Vanthvo-Fraado. (It can be good or evil. There
is something like an evil glance which can harm its recipient.) Now the Mobeds performing the Nirangdin have
passed through a Barashnoom i.e. seclusion or retreat of 10 days, when they have to observe certain
stringent rules of life. It is a purification procedure for the body, mind and the whole personality of the Mobed.
Thereafter, they have to perform certain 'Yazashney's' and generate within themselves the divine fields and
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