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Mazdeyasni means the praise of the wisdom

Updated: May 14, 2023


Mazdeyasni means the praise of the wisdom.

The insight of Zarathustra or the Mazdeyasnic way is the ultimate knowledge of self discernment and worldview. Basically the insight of Mazdeyasni means the praise of the wisdom.


That is to say, the praise and glorification of the wisdom that exist together with the universe as the single God which by the way has nothing to do with theology or the ideas related to a heavenly power. Everything that exists, along with the wisdom included in it, is the God. But this God is not for worship or surrendering against and do the mercenary for. Worship means submission to a heavenly deity to protect us from the disasters, to forgives our sins and includes us in hir mercy.


Ahuramazda, God, is not just a deity and is not just in the heaven

As mentioned, in the Mazdeyasnic insight, God is not just a deity and is not just in the heaven. God is everything and is everywhere, that is, the Being, the Existence. We ourselves are part of the God. We, as the helper of the Existence or this God, are an extension of it in order to eliminate its shortcomings and take steps towards its evolution. So we are the ones who eliminate the disasters or shortcomings and create mercy.


Sin and reward

While sin and reward mean the trade of torment and reward with a deity in heaven, it is only a primitive conception by the primitive human that needed to be protected from many and more dangers than what threatens the human of today. She/he needed encouragement to do good deeds and a deterrent excuse to avoid evil ones. There is no audit in Mazdeyasni for which there requires sin and reward. By doing a good deed, one reaches the destination, is mentally in balance and is mentally satisfied, while it is the lack of mental balance and thirst for imaginary needs that causes filth and therefore annoyance.


Ahuramazda is not holy

Nor is the god of the Mazdeyasnic insight holy. Mx is made of whatsoever the existence, the universe, the nature and the living beings, including all human are made of. A collection that now seems to have the shortcoming of immaturity as well as other shortcomings. So everything that exists includes in hir, both the aspects that are currently considered good by our measurements and the aspects that are currently considered bad by our measurements, and this includes both the poles of total wisdom or Mazda too, which are the good wisdom and the evil wisdom. In other words, Mx simply is just the Existence.


For us beginning of the evolution of Existence starts from ourselves

In any case, in order to strive for the evolution of the universe, we need to begin from ourselves first, the nearest part of the God to us, i.e. to be in balance, both mentally and physically. This means that we have no choice but to start from our own evolution in order to in continuation create joy and happiness for the creatures within the existence. And creation is something slightly different from what have been usually thought, i.e. to create from non-existence to existence.


Creation

According to Dr. Khosrow Khazaei (Pardis), the founder of the European Zarathustrian Foundation in Brussels, like a painting artist who transforms pre-existing materials, colors and canvases into art and creates a work, the harmony and regular evolution of an Existence that has always been and always will be is as a work that the wisdom in this Existence, has created. So here one must distinguish between the creation of an entity from nothing and the creation of a emerging work from what already existed. Mazdeyasnic creation mentioned in the Gathas of Zarathustra is of the second type.


Mazda, the wisdom of the Existence

We know that there are physical laws within the Existence to which the universe is subject, and the result of these laws is an evolving harmony. So these physical laws are a kind of static wisdom. But what is the origin of these laws that are embedded in the institution of the Existence? We do not know yet. Perhaps sort of a precontext that existed before the existense of any kind of material. But let's not involve in illusions and romanticizing upon baseless populistic fantasies either. We should not consider ourselves mentally needy for no matter what and thus resort to popular fantasies or ideas based on our immediate needs.


Whatever these laws are, they are illustrating a wisdom the effect of which get estimated of us as good or evil. Our very dual understanding, which depending on the knowledge that so far has been revealed to us, is such that every phenomenon is comprehensible to us in comparison with its opposite pole. If there is no darknes, light is meaningless and vice versa. But both our knowledge and our cognition, and therefore the nature, limits, and boundaries of the opposing poles we perceive, are both changing and evolving. Knowledge is the theories and speculations proven by experiences, but despite the potential fascination of a theory, until it has not been proven by experience and not becomes knowledge, believing in it and making some kind of creed of it is equal to creeping into the darkness of the illusions.


Conclusion

Therefore, the Mazdeyasnic insight does not believe in the theology, nor does it recognize a celestial omnipotent being other than human themselves who sits to protect human beings and meet their needs, but sees human as an extension of the Existence, an agent and an executor who can evolve the fields in which by now is able to influence them and create acceleration in the evolution of the very Existence. The Mazdeyasnic insight does not believe in an audit on the basis of which sin and reward are credited to an account, nor does it believe in creation from nothing, but creation as an evolving work of order and harmony by what has always existed and will exist. The Mazdeyasnic insight does not know anything as sacred either, everything is simply and only the Existence, a single and at the same time multiplex set.


As well as there is no compulsion in accepting the ideas of the Mazdeyasnic insight for which try to impose these ideas under the pretext of the sin and reward or heaven and hell. The Mazdeyasnic insight considers human to be capable and honorable of being a thinker, and therefore to be enough autonomous and free in choosing her/his path because the Mazdeyasnic insight in fact praises the wisdom.

 
 
 

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