Navroz marks the New Year Day, being celebrated on August 15 in 2024, by the Indian Parsi community as the first day of spring season by being the followers of Zoroastrianism of Iranian origin.
Navroz is viewed both as a cultural and a spiritual celebration to reflect on the past year and express the renewal hope for a future imbued with peace, prosperity and universal brotherhood or amity. On this day, the followers wish one another ' Navroz Mubarak!"
NAVROZ ACROSTIC
N: New Year Day of Parsi community in India called Navroz is celebrated in August as one of world's oldest festivals and expression of religious faith
V: Values of self-purification through 'good thoughts, good words and good deeds' and universal brotherhood emphasized
R: Ritual of offering of fruits, flowers, and sandalwood to the sacred fire, believed to carry the prayers to Ahura Mazda, is performed followed by feast with family and friends
O: Observed as day of the foundation of Zoroastrian religion in Iran by Prophet Zarathustra who considers Ahura Mazda to be the name of a single formless or invisible God as symbol of purity and divinity
Z: Zoroastrianism as life philosophy is based on the precept of cosmic dichotomy in which humans have the choice between Asha (truth, cosmic order) and the principle of righteousness promoted as embodied by invisible Ahura Mazda, or Druj (falsehood, deceit), which is the essential nature of Angra Mainyu that expresses itself as worldly mental evils of greed, wrath, and envy
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