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

What is IIm-e-Khshnoom and Why?
DR. FRAMROZE CHINIWALLA RECEIVES A 'NIRANG'
FROM THE MYSTICAL MASTERS.
TRUE STORY OF BAMANSHAH HAKIM,
THE INNER-CIRCLE-MAN OF ILM-E-KHSHNOOM
- K. N. DASTOOR
Ilm-e-Khshnoom is the mystical Science of Zarathoshti Din. No Religion can be without its own
Mysticism. Mysticism means the Truths in Nature, which are beyond the senses, intellect and consciousness
of non-saintly humans like us. Those Truths are the pointers towards the events, existences and regions,
which do not enter into the frame of our experience. For instance, the very foundation of Religion viz. the
Truth of the existence of God is a mystical axiom not provable by any amount of intellectual exertion. God is a
matter of EXPERIENCE and not of the highly limited reasoning of non saintly humans. One who experiences
God cannot give a description of Him or an intellectual 'proof' of His existence. We have to accept His
messengers' testimony alone. They tell us that there are ways of developing one-self spiritually. They are
called Dharma, Din, Religion. Only by following the Path of life as prescribed by one's own Dharma, one can
progress towards the experience of God.
IIm-e-Khshnoom, the Zarathoshti Mysticism explains and elaborates the unknown forces and energies,
which vibrate and reverberate within our spiritual Institutions and Disciplines, like Sudreh-Kushti, Atash
Padshah, Kriyakaam, moral code, Dokhma etc. We are prompted and induced to accept Khshnoom because
of its amazingly beautiful content and also of its present-day source, which itself is a mystical event, namely
the miracle of Baheramshah Shroff's three and half years sojourn with the Zarthoshti Ashavans and Aabeds.
That was not the only miracle of his life. There were many others, recorded as well as unrecorded.
As the present-day fountain of Khshnoom emanated from a mystical event, so also the continuance of its
flow after Baheramshahji's death, was owing to certain mystical occurrences in the life of his authorised
disciple, Dr. Saheb Framroze Sohrabji Chiniwalla.
Before retiring from the public activities of propagating Khshnoom, Baheramshahji appointed Dr. Saheb
Framroze to conduct the Khshnoom classes and also to write Khshnoom. This was in 1923-1924. But Nature
was preparing Dr. Framroze several years before. As mentioned in the last Issue, he was introduced to
Baheramshahji shortly after he opened his treasure chest in Surat in the first decade of the 20th century. The
two then formulated Ustad Shageyrd - Master - disciple relationship and Baheramshahji taught and revealed
Khshnoomic doctrines and truths to Dr. Framroze, during their numerous sittings in Surat and Mumbai. This
was quite independent of the propagation of IIm-e-Khshnoom then going on in Mumbai mainly through the
tremendous exertions of Ervad Saheb Phiroze Masani. Dr. Saheb Framroze had not the slightest idea that he
would be nominated by Baghermshahji to propagate Khshnoom after the latter's death. He was intensely
attracted on his own towards IIm-e-Khshnoom and Baheramshah. He had accepted Baheramshahji as his
Ustad Saheb, and considered himself to be extremely fortunate to learn the mystical truths on which the
Zarthoshti Din was founded.
The miracle in Dr. Saheb's life occurred in 1917-18, through Ustad Saheb's another close disciple,
Bamanshah Dosabhai Hakim.
It is necessary for you, my dear reader, to know about this simple, silent, unknown but highly advanced
Soul, in order to appreciate the miraculous event which happened in Dr. Framroze Chiniwalla's life.
BAMANSHAH DOSABHAI HAKIM
Imagine a Parsi of normal height clad in a Parsi coat and with a moderately long beard. When you look at
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