Mahernoz Daruwala

Collection of Quotes that i like...

Mahernoz — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 01:04:00 GMT

De parvis grandis acervus ent - Motto of Google ToolBar
(Great big things come from a small start)

We don't really see what we think we see...
-Sefa Agbovi (Pen Friend of Mahernoz)

The Difference between an Insane and a Genius is sucess
- JamesBond movie.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi

"You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such
allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her
whole soul."
-Mahatma Gandhi

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.
- Henny Youngman

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter Drucker

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt within the heart.
-Helen Keller

He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have. - Don Juan Manuel

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. - Fran Lebowitz

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. - Philip K. Dick

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Another good collection of Quotes

Mahernoz — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:01:00 GMT

"Life is a challenge, meet it."~ Mother Teressa

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." ~ Chinese Proverb

"I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish."~ Yanni

"Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don't give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life's problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works." ~ Yanni

"The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges." ~Martin Luther King Jr.

Dreams can often become challenging, but challenges are what we live for. -- Travis White

“Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.” ~ Carlos Castaneda

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” ~ Teddy Roosevelt

“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” ~ Teddy Roosevelt

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." Albert Einstein

When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge. -- Terry Bradshaw

Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned. -- Charles W. Chesnutt

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. - Mark Twain

When someone tells me there is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, "I'm going to prove you wrong!" -- Picabo Street

If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives, to seek the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling, then we can have no security: we will live in a world of sham, in which our selves are determined by the will of others, in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us. -- Nena O'Neil

There is no Challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself. -- Michael F. Staley

You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind. -- Darwin P. Kingsley

I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged. -- Connie Chung

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it. -- Margaret Chase Smith

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. -- George S. Patton

If someone says can't, that shows you what to do. -- John Cage

"In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it." Norman Vincent Peale

"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you." Walt Disney

"Just because you know where you want to end up doesn’t mean you will not be faced with obstacles, or challenges along the way. Instant success rarely happens." Catherine Pulsifer, from Wings for Goals

"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands." Richard Bach

"Before you can consider a problem water under the bridge, you must first patiently work on removing the dam." Michelle C. Ustaszeski

"Perseverance is the ability to keep going in the face of continuous challenges. It is the ability to disregard distractions and to stay focused." Catherine Pulsifer

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." Dale Carnegie

"Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." Richard M. Nixon

"A challenge is an opportunity to prove your ability to yourself, and others." Contributed by Joe Brown

"To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like." Mike Gafka

"Let your language be a source of unity but not a separating tool." William Ngwako Maphoto

"Make every rejection moment an opportunity for revolution. Make every revulsion(dislike) into Attraction." William Ngwako Maphoto

"Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing." Lady Holland

"For every mountain there is a miracle." Robert H. Schuller

"Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors." African Proverb

"It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up again." Vince Lombardi

"The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong." Thomas Carlyle

"I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much." Mother Teresa

"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." Aldous Huxley

"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it." Washington Irving

"A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles." Gunderson

"Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight." Orison Swett Marden

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others...

When was the last time you did something for the first time? The lesser this interval, the nearer you are to another success.

For all your days prepare And meet things ever alike When you are the anvil, bear When you are the hammer, strike

No problem can withstand the power of sustained creative thought.

There are no mistakes made in life, there are only lessons learnt.

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Be the change you want to see in this world.

Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didnt do than by the ones you did.

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.

Do what you know best, if you are a runner, run.. If you are a bell, ring.

Worry is the misuse of imagination.

Instead of thinking where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes 20 years of smart work to become an overnight success.

When we put a limit on what we want to do, we also put a limit on what we can do.

Either I will find a way or I will make one.

Your day goes the way the corners of your mouth turn.

We dont know who we are until we see what we can do.

Dont go through life, grow through life.

Its time to start living the life we have imagined.

No matter what our age or condition is, there are still untapped potentials within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

The only aging process is the erosion of dreams.

Cherish your yesterdays, dream your tomorrows, but live your todays!

Our self image and our habits go together. Change one and the other will be changed automatically.

Make you life a mission, not an intermission.

The world is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world.

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

Nothing is good or bad, but it is our thinking which makes it so.

Happiness is a present attitude, not a future condition.

Believe that you have it, and you have it.

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others...

When was the last time you did something for the first time? The lesser this interval, the nearer you are to another success.

For all your days prepare And meet things ever alike When you are the anvil, bear When you are the hammer, strike

No problem can withstand the power of sustained creative thought.

There are no mistakes made in life, there are only lessons learnt.

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Be the change you want to see in this world.

Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didnt do than by the ones you did.

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.

Do what you know best, if you are a runner, run.. If you are a bell, ring.

Worry is the misuse of imagination.

Instead of thinking where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes 20 years of smart work to become an overnight success.

When we put a limit on what we want to do, we also put a limit on what we can do.

Either I will find a way or I will make one.

Your day goes the way the corners of your mouth turn.

We dont know who we are until we see what we can do.

Dont go through life, grow through life.

Its time to start living the life we have imagined.

No matter what our age or condition is, there are still untapped potentials within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

The only aging process is the erosion of dreams.

Cherish your yesterdays, dream your tomorrows, but live your todays!

Our self image and our habits go together. Change one and the other will be changed automatically.

Make you life a mission, not an intermission.

The world is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world.

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

Nothing is good or bad, but it is our thinking which makes it so.

Happiness is a present attitude, not a future condition.

Believe that you have it, and you have it.

Art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

Thoughts lead to purpose, purposes to action, actions form habits, habits decide our character and character fixes our destiny.

Failure is a temporary change in direction to set you straight towards the path of success.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

Tough times dont last, while tough people do.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Become addicted to constant and never-ending self improvement.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

Use whatever talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang, except those that sing best.

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere.

They can conquer who believe they can.

You will rise by lifting others.

Your mind will give back exactly what you put into it.

The fault finder will find faults even in a paradise.

The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.

Being happy is one of the ways of being wise.

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

We can accomplish many more if we did not think of them as impossible.

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.

The man with confidence in himself, gains the confidence of others.

You will only go as far as you can think you can go.

He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.

The biggest mistake of all is to avoid situations in which you might make a mistake.

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

Genius is the product of enthusiasm.

Confidence in nonsense is requirement for the creative process.

Optimists do not wait for improvement, they achieve it.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves, else we harden and weaken.

Use the word "impossible" with great caution.

Never discourage anyone, who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Two men look out through the same bars, one sees the mud and one the stars.

Trust your hopes, not your fears.

Whether a glass is half-full or half-empty depends on the attitude of the person looking at it.

There is a better way to do everything you do, find it.

Be a believer first, to become an achiever.

Things don't turn up in this world, unless somebody turns them up.

Promote yourself without demoting others.

A positive attitude is not a destination, its a way of life.

Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish.

When you are though changing, you are though.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

You begin to achieve when you begin to believe.

It is not the situation that matters, but your reaction to the situation.

A man who has to be convinced before he acts, is not a man of action.

Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of knowledge, but a lack of will.

We cant direct the winds, but we can adjust the sails.

If you really want to be happy, nobody can stop you.

Life is a collection of experiments, the more experiments you make, the better.

One cannot control the length of his life, but he can have something to say about its width and depth.

Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

In the long run, a person hits at only what he aimed at.

The way to overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

We are what we think we are. All that we are arises with our own thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.

Praise loudly, blame softly

The poor man is not he who is without money, but he who is without a dream.

There is only one corner if the universe you can be certain of improving, and thats your own self.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today

A problem is a chance for you to do your best

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce

Reputation is what people think you are... Personality is what you seem to be.... Character is what you really are.....

"Do not undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special".

"Action may not always bring happiness, But there is no happiness without action" -Benjamin Disraeli

"Happiness is a choice that requires efforts at times"

"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for" - Allan K. Chalmers

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. " - Helen Keller

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau

"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was" - Richard L. Evans

"We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision" - Gary Collins

"Today's beautiful moments are Tomorrow's beautiful memories."

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenges and controversy" - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Life is the first gift, Love is the second and Understanding is the third"

"Don't grieve that your roses have thorns. Rejoice instead that your thorns have roses!"

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom"

"Its not how you fall, but how you pick yourself up again"

"The heights by great men reached and kept were not achieved by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upwards in the night"

"Love is true when it comes from the heart, not from the mouth" - Aristotle

"To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born twin." - Lord Byron

"Success is not the result of a spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire" - Fred Shero

"Do not set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you..."

"He who dares wins"

Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and you cry alone. - Horace

"Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great" - Kenny Rogers

"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there is always a scarcity of resolve to make it happen."- Wayne Dyer

"For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Liars need good memories"

"Life is the greatest bargain; we get it for nothing"

"Between the great things that we cannot do and the small things that we do not do, we end up doing nothing. Little drops of water make a mighty ocean"

"You learn swimming by swimming only. There is no shortcut for success"

"Do not let life slip through your fingers by living in the past or by living for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live all the days of your life"

"I cried for boots until I saw a man who had no legs"

"As a rule, Man is a fool When it's hot he wants it cool When it's cool he wants it hot Always wanting what is not"

"Life is a unique exam of its kind in the sense that we face the exams first and learn lessons later."

"Treat a person as he is and he remains as he is, treat the same person as he could be and he will become what he should be."

"A reasonable person is the one who adapts himself to the world. An un-reasonable person is the one who keeps trying to adapt the rest of the world to suit himself."

"God helps only those who help themselves."

"When you lose, do not lose the lesson."

"I love you not for whom you are, but for who I am when I am by your side."

"No person deserves your tears, and the one who deserves won't make you cry."

"The worst way to miss someone is to be seated by his/her side and to know that you'll never have him/her."

"Never stop smiling, not even when you are sad, someone might fall in love with your smile."

"You may only be a person in this world, but for someone, you're the world."

"Don't spend time with someone who doesn't care spending it with you."

"May be GOD wants you to meet many wrong people before you meet the right one, so when this happens, you'll be thankful."

"Don't struggle so much, best things happen when unexpected."

"Do not give up when there is still something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying. It is a fragile thread that binds us to each other."

"When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane."

"Look deep, deep into nature and then you will understand everything better" - Albert Einstein

"Man is the only animal who eats even when he is not hungry"

"Don't live to eat, eat to live"

"When the going gets tough, the tough get the going

. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin ? to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. First, believe in this world, that.

EACH soul is potentially Divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity with in by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work or worship or psychic control or philosophy- by one or more all of these- and be free. This is whole of RELIGION.

Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man

My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.

How to tell the difference between Love and Lust?

Mahernoz — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:25:00 GMT

Happy Valentine Day

Love or Lust?

·Love is loyal.
·Love is wanting the best for the other person.
·Love is compromising and working things out in a way that you both can win.
·Love is finding common ground.
·Love is trying to come together in a way that makes the world a better place.
·Love is selfless.
·Love is caring about the other person’s emotional needs and feelings.
What Lust is…
·Lust is self-gratification.
·Lust can be obsessive.
·Lust is usually tied to sexual gratification.
·Lust is selfish.
·Lust doesn’t consider the other persons wants and needs.
·Lust doesn’t care about how the other person’s day went.
·When someone’s in lust they aren’t interested in meeting family or friends.
·Lust is wanting something to the point that you don’t care who gets hurt.
·Lust manipulates, destroys and controls.
·Lust often involves raging.
·People who lusts may think they are in love, but the fire burns out quickly when they get the person or thing they lust for.
·Lust doesn’t last, but love can.

Regards,

Mahernoz

How to send Email in AsP.net?

Mahernoz — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:34:00 GMT

How to send Email in AsP.net?

In Aspx write....

SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient();
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage(From, To, Subject, Body);
mail.IsBodyHtml = true;
client.Send(mail);
return true;

In Web.config

After System.Web

192.168.1.100 = Is Your SMTP Server Address...(You need to configure your SMTP Server
userName = Valid Username
password = valid password

N Tier Tutorials

Mahernoz — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:27:00 GMT

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Cloning of Zoroastrianism

Mahernoz — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 19:10:00 GMT

Cloning of Zoroastrianism

In order to save our community from extinction there had been many noteworthy attempts done by Parsi trusts and other people. But as we all know that our community is like a leaky bucket, where the water drops off more than it gets filled. There are many holes in this bucket. Like…

1) Death

2) Intercaste marriage

3) Willful acceptance of other religion

4) Infertility among the couples or other medical problems.

5) No wish to have a child.

6) No wish to marry.

We all know that we cannot avoid death, nor can we change a person mind to not to accept other religion (we may only advice but can’t beg him) and there is also the problem of infertility for which medical help is available, but still some cases remain uncured.

But the main trend why Zoroastrian religion numbers are falling is due to the fact that there are many intercaste marriages committed. In order to stop intercaste marriages we have no scheme because our community is not against love. If a person of our caste loves another person of other caste then he has the right to marry that person and we are quite a modern community and don’t even entertain religious extremism. For us being an Indian is more important than being a Zoroastrian.

There is one way by which intercaste marriage can be avoided but that is not recommended at least for an educated community like ours. And that solution is to do child marriages. No, this is not a solution because it is immoral. So, we won’t consider this as a solution at all.

Our Parsi trust had also put forward a solution to remedy the lower population & birth rate problem.

“If a couple has a third child then his expenses will be borne by the Parsi Panchayat of that respective city”(I believe that days will come to change that to second)

This suggestion is a complete failure and our Parsi couples are not a fool to have a third child because of some discount scheme and we don’t want our child to live a life full of Panchayat scholarships. We want that our child be well educated and become some one of great importance like an MBA, Doctor, Engineer, etc. The Parsi Panchayat has its limits well defined. It cannot take care of our children in the same way we care for them.

I also propose a solution to increase population that “If a couple is not able to borne a child for 2 years after marriage then they should be given free medical help if they have medical problems or financial help if their condition is so poor that they can’t afford to have a child or Psychiatric help if they face a mental problem (which involves sex problems). All these expenses should be borne by the Panchayat” this solution will bring more people under its scope rather than couples with 3 children. However, care should be taken that the Panchayat Funds be helpful to genuine persons only who seek financial help from the Parsi Panchayat.

There are other ways by which Parsis can increase their population but they are immoral and don’t deserve any mention here.

No solution is actually working for us and according to the recent statistics by the Government of India, the rate at which our community is declining; our community will be extinct (yes, extinct) within the next 100 years. I am not against luck or Believe in God type persons that they may assure me that everything would be all right but you can’t ignore the ground reality.

Yes, there would be no Parsi walking on this earth after 100 years. Believe it or not. Every probability and statistics possible reflects only this fact. The Paper “Jame Jamshed” which you are reading right now will also be extinct as no Parsi reader will be there to read it. Government will take hold of our Fire Temples, Dharamshalas and Marriage Halls and Dokhma and would do anything with it, may be preserve it as a museum for travelers that once upon a time there were people known as Zoroastrians or Parsis who used to pray here in the Agyari or Atash Behram. I believe that the fire temple of Udvada and all the Atash Behrams will be a tourist spot.

Don’t get too much excited because this is going to happen after 100 years. There is still much time left, after 100 years not even our ashes would remain on this earth. As usual we will sleep, eat, work and die while watching our community decline for the reasons I mentioned above.

Isn’t there any hope of our survival? Well, let us see… some people on reading this might have some brave terminology of their own that “I am a pure Zoroastrian and my children would be also only Zoroastrian and I and my children and their children would only marry Zoroastrians and as long as my family and I are there Zoroastrianism won’t be perished.”

Can we believe in such kind of a wishful thinking? What if that brave person’s grand children fell in love with some other caste person? Again I add that we are not against love.

The fact that I am telling is that we are relying on wishful thinking, on magic or on a deteriorating hope that our community would survive even the baddest days and somehow would get through. Because we people are hopeful people and certainly not hopeless. I am not against hope of that sort but there should be (there must be) much more consolidation filled within our hearts than just a deteriorating hope.

Also another danger, which is lurking is that if the population will decline below a certain level, the rate of intercaste marriage is going to increase even more than now and that can bring the downfall of our community much faster than 100 years limit.

There is another problem of location as in these days our people are not at one location as it used to be in Iran, some Parsis have also shifted to some other countries where no Zoroastrian population exist for e.g. some parts of Africa, China, Russia, etc. and they marry the girl of that country who is outside of our caste because of many reasons and one of the reasons is they are not willing to accept a girl/boy outside of their own new environment because as it is said that “We are True to our own Environments”.

If some boy was born and brought up in China he would have only Chinese women to watch in his surroundings so he will begin to like Chinese women more, and would insist on marrying an Chinese woman rather than an unknown Parsi woman and one day he will fall in love with such a woman of his dreams. The same rule applies to girls also. This might look rubbish to some but this is reality of our present generation. So it is really hard to maintain your Zoroastrianism when we live in some places where Zoroastrian people are very scarce or are hard to find. The parents also won’t interfere in their child’s way because they know the situation.

The problem of location do happen within India also as we know that Mumbai based Parsi Boys/Girls are not willing to marry outside Mumbai because they can’t leave Mumbai. So, our religion is basically concentrated more on Mumbai where 55,000 of the possible 65,000 Parsis live, and with the fashionable culture these days people will prefer an inter caste marriage with a smart person rather than an arranged marriage with a dull person.

Now where does the solution lie?

Let us rethink the whole situation again. We cannot stop people falling in love; we cannot accept the person of outside caste because it will spoil our environment and our blood (that’s funny but many still believe this).

Our youth is mature enough to choose their life partners. It’s not necessarily only attraction when it comes to intercaste marriages, but some other factors as well like relationship, friendship, true love, etc., so our lecturers (those old people who use to bore us) should not use the word “attraction” when it comes to intercaste marriages as it reflects their own hidden mental status!

I respect the fact that Parsis will not include outside caste members in the Zoroastrian religion. I also believe that the Persian blood must be preserved and as much as possible a Parsi should marry a Parsi only.

But the heart has its own reasons. All the logic in this world won’t prevent you from falling in love with a person you never intent to. We also can’t tell our love that, “Don’t come near me! I am a Zoroastrian! I need to save my religion!” Actually, it just happens. Love defies all logic.

So, at the same time we have the responsibility to preserve our Blood and also our Love. When a choice does come to choose Religion or Love we naturally choose Love (being the kind of emotional fools we all are!). We also want that our spouse should be respected and accepted in the same way as we get accepted in our community. But here all the problems start.

Intercaste marriages (though the bravest!) are looked upon as inferior marriages (this is in every community). The couples that do intercaste marriage do not get accepted fully by either side, not our side nor theirs. You tell me, what was their fault? Their fault was that they loved each other and also married overlooking the fact that they were both of different castes. I don’t say that, but this is what they go through every day. Even in gatherings like marriages, parties, etc. But these couples don’t care for the world or society they just care for each other. They are modern people, but sometimes they do feel it from their inside that, neglect…

I think that we must make the lives of such couples easier.

My thinking is based upon the line written in the Book of the HA written by Prophet Asho Zarathrustra “Zoroastrianism is for the whole mankind” I don’t read any Persian scripts but Dr. Chatterjee a renowned scholar on Zoroastrianism has stated this years ago and also criticized the Parsi community for keeping the religion to Iranians only.

Our present religion’s Architecture has many flaws. The major flaw of this Architecture is simple, it doesn’t work.

And my Software Engineering discipline states, “If the old design is inflexible then it is better to make a new design which is flexible enough to accept changes, which will lead to a long lasting system”

Remember, we must leave the old design as it is and protect the honor of good blood. We can’t change the old system made by our great ancestors. Each religion has it’s own rules and traditions, and we must respect the traditions of the religion in which we are and like the ARZ we must not think to include outside members in our present religion. I wrote to ARZ about my idea, but ARZ is only interested in conversion and I am talking about a new World Religion, which would be even better than the present one, because we are capable of making one.

As our community people has always been great initiators we can do one thing which no other religion has ever done for its kids, we can make a new design, yes what I am talking about is we must make a mirror image of Zoroastrianism which is based upon Indian laws and not the Persian laws formulated some 1500 years ago. This new religion will be known as the “Protestant Zoroastrianism” and this religion will accept all the members from any community and also intercaste couples from any community. So this religion would be the “First Lover’s Religion” on earth. Religion has always been a hurdle against love and love has always been a hurdle against religion, but no longer.

This religion won’t behave in any special way as the Orthodox Zoroastrians (which we are presently) but in the same way as other religions in India behaves. No special treatment.

The Protestant Zoroastrian religion will not be a sub caste of the Orthodox Zoroastrian religion but a completely different religion with a different set of values.

Anybody can go into the Protestant Zoroastrian Agyari or Atash Behram or Dokhma, and can offer their prayers. Anybody can be included in Protestant Zoroastrian only if he/she wishes and not by force or greed. The Protestant Agyaris will have their own Dastoors. If Orthodox Zoroastrian dastoors do wish to help to train Protestant Zoroastrian dastoors they are most welcome to do so, but keeping the Protestant rules in mind.

The Protestant Zoroastrians will be known as True Zoroastrians in the eyes of Prophet Asho Zarathrustra and God Ahura Mazda they don’t need any certification from Orthodox Zoroastrian authorities. But I know that the Orthodox Zoroastrian won’t be comfortable with the Protestant Zoroastrian because they suffer from their egos of pure blood but what really counts in the eyes of God is not the language, body, blood, environment, etc. but the soul and only the soul. But the Protestant Zoroastrians don’t want any stamp on them or help from the Orthodox Zoroastrian people in the matters of their personal opinions. I am confident that if the new person is given an environment similar to Orthodox Zoroastrian then he may begin to like Zoroastrianism, as it is a religion free from any orthodox values and a “Modern Religion”, which will have all the good points of Orthodox Zoroastrianism.

Intercaste marriage would also be allowed in this new religion. There is no need for the Orthodox Zoroastrians to join in this religion. They can keep their spouse in the Protestant Zoroastrian and remain themselves as Orthodox Zoroastrians also if they wish to.

On the other hand, the Orthodox Zoroastrians should not view the Protestant Zoroastrians as lower people because this is the religion, which will survive the test of time after they have perished within some years so they must try to help this new religion as much as they can. Although the language of Protestant Zoroastrians would not be similar to Parsis, the environment also won’t be similar to the Parsis, not even the body would be similar to a Parsi, in fact it would be a mixture of many cultures, but as I told you all these things are trivial in front of the soul. Consider the case of the Muslim religion, an Afghan, Arab, Indian Muslim, Turkish Muslim, African Muslims, etc. they all are different having different language, body, blood & environment but they are still Muslims because Muslim religion is for the whole mankind and not for any one group of people. In the same way Protestant Zoroastrian will be for the whole mankind and not for the group of people and would be free of any orthodox values and a Modern Religion, which encourages love and scientific thinking.

The Protestant Zoroastrian will have their own Avesta books translated in many different languages as needed. The Avesta books would also show the meanings of the Prayer text in that respective language. So people who have complaints that they can’t understand their own prayers would have a better insight on the meanings of prayers they utter. For this Protestant Zoroastrian should have their own printing press to publish various books relating to Zoroastrianism. If the Orthodox Zoroastrians are willing to provide books to the Protestant Zoroastrian then they are most welcome to do so.

The Protestant Zoroastrian Navjote ceremony and marriage ceremony would be similar to the Orthodox Zoroastrian ways.

The Protestant Zoroastrian will have its own calendar; the member’s council (which will be held every year) of the Protestant Zoroastrianism would decide this calendar. So, the Protestant Zoroastrian New Year might be different than the Orthodox Zoroastrians New Year.

The Protestant Zoroastrians will have their own offices, which will administrate the affairs of the Protestant community and would do all the welfare work in a similar way done by the Parsi Panchayat of Orthodox Zoroastrian. The headquarters of such offices will be decided by the council and can be anywhere in this world. An annual meeting will be held at these headquarters to discuss changes to be included in the Protestant faith.

The Protestant Zoroastrian would be the first religion to get updated every year. There would be no stagnant beliefs & no religious extremism, but dynamic logical behavior, which will guide the members of the community. Even the Bible or the Koran does not get updated so frequently and what had been written a thousand years ago (with good intentions in those times) is not necessarily true today. But Protestant Zoroastrian will update every belief with the change of times.

There always had been a war between Religion and Science also as religion relied on hope and science relied on principles and logic. After the advent of Protestant Zoroastrian this problem will be eliminated, as the Protestant Zoroastrian religious books will be compliant with the latest available scientific literature. This will be the first religion, which will keep both Love and Science as its base rather than culture or environment (on the basis of which other religions were founded). As I told you that this is going to be the first Modern Religion.

There also has been a war between Religion and Philosophy as religion relied on extremism and idea of groupism & philosophers believed in world peace & togetherness, so Philosophers are most welcome in the Protestant Zoroastrian faith to discuss their ideas, how ever radical it might be.

Also the intercaste couples will have an environment in which all accepts them and the problem of neglect by the society would also end as a new society already awaits them & the Orthodox Zoroastrian children who had married outside their caste would still remain Zoroastrian, in this way. They can even go to Protestant Zoroastrian Agyari with their spouse and children.

Also those people who have the claim that they are Zoroastrians but are not admitted in the Zoroastrian religion would find a place in the Protestant Zoroastrian; also the Protestant Zoroastrian will be based on better ideologies than the current Zoroastrian ideologies. These kind of people have been scattered all over the world after the loss of Iran War by the Parsis, it is said that large numbers are in Russia, but now in frustration they are accepting Islam as they are not accepted in Zoroastrianism. Such people can enter the Protestant Zoroastrian faith.

The Orthodox Zoroastrians are divided into 3 sub castes Shahenshahi, Irani, and Kadmi but the Protestant Zoroastrian will only be 1 whole body and there won’t be any further sub castes. So the problem of sub castes would also be eliminated.

I hope you find my solution of cloning the Zoroastrianism quite useful, and the advent of the newer religion named Protestant Zoroastrianism is the only way by which our Parsi community will survive the test of time.

There is another way but I don’t recommend it, which is we start to include all members of outside community in our religion. But as I stated earlier we must try to preserve Zoroastrian blood & culture as much as possible as we are a very small community trying to preserve our culture and environment and our lecturers (those old people who never like to depart with their mikes) won’t also agree to include outside members in our religion. The Zoroastrian Scholars should come out of their libraries and watch the real world. We need to keep another bucket under that leaky bucket so that the water remains preserved in some way.

I do hope that you like my suggestion to save the Parsi community from extinction. I just don’t want to write papers on this thing because doing is more important than saying (this also implies to thinking, dreaming, wishing, and writing) and I alone cannot do anything but much support will be needed from other people also who have the same ideologies as mine. Remember, I don’t want to change the existing Zoroastrianism nor do I want any partition on the existing religion.

The start of something new brings the hope of something great. We people are much capable of defining a new religion than those who lived 1500 years ago. To save our religion we cannot wait for any Behram Varezavand (the savior) to come to earth (is he on vacation right now?). This would be just another wishful thinking that we are in right now. We must not be dependable on any wishful thinking. We can’t wait for the gods to help us; we have to do this thing ourselves.

Together we can start this new religion and save mankind from present religions, which are now problematic & full of Religious extremism and we must give the whole mankind a Modern Religion to live with which will be based upon Love and Science rather than on Culture and Environment. The Youth should step forward to fight against the orthodox society, which cripples their own freedom and make this idea a success.

Yours truly,

MAHERNOZ PERCY DARUWALA

26^th January 2005