A Persian Offering The Yasna; A Zoroastrian High Liturgy

Throughout history, religious beliefs and practices of the various statements which have taken leading roles in many cultures and societies have developed. But beliefs expressed when an act had been made to prove them. In other words, the act of performing a specific ritual causes each person’s religious belief of the devout being expressed. So we can introduce that the most striking feature and core faiths of a religion are liturgical rites and ordinances. Operating religious laws creates unity in the community and unity in the act of worshiping God emanates the piety and obedience. The present thesis is a translation of a book written about one of Parsis most important religious ceremonies. The book intends to explain the exact implement related to the event and all the details of these rituals. Furthermore, it interprets the relevant theological issues and then considers its place in Zoroastrianism worldview. Then it deals with the detailed explanation of the requirements and necessary conditions for performing ceremonies such as place of performance or the location, runtime, the procurement of supplies needed to get started, purification terms of priests, and purity. The book seeks to illustrate the point that Yasna ceremony celebrate in the material world is the typical example of the Cosmic. In fact worshippers performing the Yasna in the limited time seek to create a bridge to an infinite and unlimited time. As long as the time, when Mazda forces during a battle overcome the forces of evil and won. Time and place in the presence of the sacred are infinite and unlimited; thus considered space and time, the purity of priests and being experienced in saying Mānthra, all are important in order to make human soul ascend to spiritual world and be present in front of Ahura Mazda and all divine beings to be worshiped.