FRAVASHIS
Guardian Angels

 

 

Ashaonam vanghuhish surao spentao fravashayo yazamaide.
We revere the fravashis of the righteous, good, strong and holy ones.

 

THEME:

Guardian Spirit

May Fravardin (Divine Essence in Man) lead you to progress in spiritual strength,

Further Reading:

*farohar (Pers.):
guardian angel, guardian spirits of the living and dead. (Var: Phl. 'frohar, fravard, fravahr', Av. 'fravashi')

Briefly stated ‘Fravashi’ means Divine Essence of God in everything within the creation, including human beings and its purpose is to push forward all creations in the goal of evolution. In order that we may better understand the nature of work done by the Farohars, ‘Farvardin Yasht’ tells us that there are 3 groups of Farohars.

  1. This consists of Farohars in all creations of Ahura Mazda as stated above.

  2. The Farohars that work on spiritual plane and come to our aid when invoked.

  3. The Farohars of Asho that approach the domain of the living during ten days of Muktad or Farverdegan, irrespective of their being invoked or not, to pour down their benedictions upon the "power of righteousness that pervades the earth."

There are several passages in the Farvardin Yasht dealing with all the three groups; only the group 3 is dealt here, since it is related to the subject-matter under consideration.

Our Mobeds or Ervad Sahebs, during the course of the Ceremonies in question, invoke Farohars of righteous persons of all countries irrespective of caste, colour or creed. A few countries are actually mentioned by names - the countries that were known to our ancestors and where Zoroastrian Religion prevailed. Given below are the relevant passages.

 
KARDA XXX1 (143):- "We revere the fravashis of righteous persons of Aryan countries. We revere the fravashis of righteous women of Aryan countries. We revere the fravashis of righteous men and women of Turanian countries. We revere the fravashis of righteous men of Sairim (Syrian) countries. We revere the fravashis of righteous women of Sairim (Syrian) countries."

KARDA XXX1 (144):- "We revere the fravashis of righteous men of Saini (China) countries. We revere the fravashis of righteous women of Saini (China) countries. We revere the fravashis of righteous men of Dahi countries.  (These countries are supposed to be to the east of the Caspian Sea where brave tribes once lived.)

KARDA XXX1 (145) :- "We revere the fravashis of righteous men of all countries. We revere the fravashis of righteous women of all countries. We revere all the fravashis of the righteous good, powerful, beneficent fravashis those from Gayomard to the Soshyant.

SIROZAH XXX :

FARVARDIN

We sacrifice unto the good,  the strong, the beneficent Fravashis of the Holy Ones.