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Zoroastrian philosophy emphasised the value of their own trinity: good thoughts, good words and good deeds—humata, hukata and huvarastha
remind the boys that all that money gave a person was the freedom of not having to worry about it.
‘We have been dealt a set of cards. We need to play intelligently with those we have.’
That’s Life
these ‘new, improved’ drugs cost much more, thus adding to the company’s bottom line, and lining the pockets of the greedy manufacturers, ‘innovative’ scientists, ‘flexible’ lawyers and slimy senators, all with malleable and ductile morals.
When people commented that Baman was smart in spite of a limited education, Navroze would retort, ‘The boy is smart precisely because of his limited education.’
It became clear to Zarathustra that Ahura Mazda—shortened by successive generations of Zoroastrians to Ormazd, Hormazd and Hormuz—is the supreme being, the uncreated spirit. Nothing exists without Ahura Mazda who is peerless, changeless and timeless.
Lamassu, the mythical winged beings with human heads and bovine bodies,
Lachrymators such as CS were known to cause severe eye pain, temporary blindness, respiratory distress and, on a lesser scale, skin irritation.
It was a pyrrhic victory.
His master wrote back, “If the books contradict the Qur’an, they are blasphemous. And if they are in agreement with the Qur’an, then they are unnecessary.” The library was destroyed, and generations of writings were burned.’ ‘No
Who was braver—the one who stayed or the one who fled?
‘The lands of Persia as well as Bactria—now called Afghanistan—were irrigated by qanats, or horizontal wells.’
‘Remember one thing though, son,’ said Baba Malik. ‘You are not an earthly body having a spiritual experience. Turn that notion on its head—you are a spiritual being having an earthly experience.
