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BEWARES Oh mind now remain awake; Neglectful you have wasted your life, And thieves have broken into your home, Trust not the five watchmen Who guard your doors, Keep alert and light will be manifested in you. - Kabir * * * * * He should be awake and speak no untruth And keep his five senses under control. * * * * * - Beni Saheb (Parsi Pukar April-May 2000 - Vol. 5; No. 10-11) 67
What is Ilm-e-khshnoom and why? BARJO LAHER GIVES AN AMAZING, LIST OF BAHERAMSHAHJI'S KNOWLEDGE IN VARIED ESOTERIC FIELDS. This series had its start in the year 1999. It is in answer to a number of questions which are asked about llm-e-Khshnoom, like: 1. What is it? Some new line or school of thought? 2. Is there any authenticity to the life story of Baheramshah Shroff, who brought Khshnoom before the Community? Is there any evidence to prove beyond doubt that he did stay in an unknown, secret, and unobservable abode of Zarthoshti Ashavans? 3. It is claimed that Khshnoom is the master key and the only key to understand the teachings and traditions of the Zarthoshti Din. How far is the claim correct? 4. There seems to be too much of mysteries in Khshnoom. Have they any scriptural support? 5. Have the teachings of Khshnoom any support, near or remote, from modern science and thought? 6. Baheramshah Shroff died in 1927. Who carried on the banner of IIm-e-Khshnoom? The first step in an honest and objective search for the answers to these questions is to examine the testimonies of those contemporaries of Baheramshahji who had come in direct contact with him. Most fortunately we have Baheramshah Shroff Memorial Volume published just three years after his death, which contains such testimonies of about 36 witnesses. We have read some of them. We have seen that they can be divided into several classes: 1. Those who were responsible for bringing out Baheramshahji from his deliberate and self imposed silence of 25 long years. We have so far read only one such witness, Manchershah Palonji Kekobad. There are several others. 2. Those oriental scholars like Khurshedji Cama and Khodabux Poonegar, who were amazed at the knowledge of Avesta, Pahalvi, Pazend and Persian scriptures and writings. 3. Legal luminaries like Khurshedji Suntoke, a most eminent Advocate who practised mainly in the Bombay Small Causes Court and Jehangirji Vimadalal Solicitor, an eminent orthodox personality of his time, both of whom were intensely enamored by Baheramshahji's knowledge of Zarthoshti Din, our sacred Avesta scriptures and the spiritual Institutions practiced by the Parsis since thousands of years. 4. Erudite intellectuals like Jamshed Mehta and Dr. Hormazshah Vania of Karachi; Pirojshah Rustomji Mehta and Nanabhai Mama of Bombay; and Ardesher Billimoria of Navasari. (We have not met them in this series.) 5. Sincerely faithful and tarikat-baaz Mobeds like Ervad Saheb Baheramji Unwalla and Dastoorji Manekji Bhathena, who were astounded at Baheramshahji's knowledge and guidance on Kriya Kaam. 6. Personal disciples like Hakim Sola Doctor, Cawas Sarkari and Barjo Laher, who were not public figures, but had a stream of tears to shed on the death of Baheramshahji. 7. Those disciples who gathered around him to propagate Khoshnoom, like Masani brothers and Chiniwalla brothers. In the last installment of this series (Feb-March 2000) we were on the testimony of Barjo Laher, a close personal disciple of Baheramshahji. He has testified that he had on his own gone to Baheramshahji to investigate his claim and was thoroughly flabbergasted at the tremendous amount of occult and mystical knowledge stored in Baheramshahji, not only on Zarthoshti Din but other Dins too. He asks: how can this treasure be infused in an uneducated Gujarati IV Std. boy who was found to be heavily stammering and useless in his intelligence? He was found scintillating with most enlightened spiritual knowledge. How could he grasp and absorb and so ably convey such knowledge, unless it was inducted in him by highly spiritual 68
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When Baheramshah Shroff arrived on
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WAS IT ZARTHOSHTI? Jehangirji then
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"The Parsi Youth do not get the kno
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