MAKE 2002 THE YEAR OF VOHU-KHSHATHRA
By: Dr. José Luis
Abreu
The year is about
to end. It is time to
evaluate our thoughts, words and actions. We are creators and the materials for
our creation are thoughts, words and actions. We have had the opportunity to
co-work with Ahura Mazda in creation and in maintaining creation in harmony.
However, a person can have good thoughts, good words and good actions limited
to him/herself and his/her family, but this would be a limited vision. It is
not the complete vision that Zarathushtra promoted. It would be like making a
single step in a long journey.
At this stage of
the year sometime should be taken to evaluate sincerely what have we done for
other people outside our individual and family boundaries.
Zarathushtra
taught us the concept of Vohu-Khshathra, which can be rendered as "Ideal
Society", he gave importance to this primal principle of life because the
individual happiness is not apart from collective happiness. In this sense,
Ahura Mazda has elaborated a project which involves the construction of a
society where happiness must be achieved completely by each one of its members,
not only is happiness reserve for a few minority. The House of Song has
infinite rooms to accommodate His guests. The Wise One is just asking for
volunteers to help him bring these guests.
The best way to
evaluate our performance as co-workers of Ahura Mazda is measuring our
contributions to build a better society. But what are the parameters? What are
the instruments to measure our contribution? If someone has fever, a
thermometer can be used. The speed of a car can be visualized looking at the
speedometer, and so on.
Well, society
also has parameters to measure its health conditions. Some of these parameters
are related to poverty, starvation, epidemical diseases, lack of educational
opportunities, unemployment, violence of any type, corruption, criminality,
discrimination, etc. These elements cause fever and make our society sick.
The time is
appropriate to evaluate if we have voluntarily done this year something to
contribute in the making of a better society. Have we done anything to reduce poverty in this
world? Or to fight the devil
of starvation...or to provide an educational opportunity to the needed...
Let's see what
Zarathushtra said about Vohu-Khshathra:
"It is the best dividend...." and...
"It is for Vohu-Khshathra that I am working for all of us (Song 16.1)
"Where does
felicity flow?"...Through Vohu-Khshathra Wise One.. (Song 16.4).
The happiness promoted by Zarathushtra was not
only individual, it was collective. Thus, the time has come to evaluate our participation in the promotion of
Ushta for the community. It is the right time to remember the clear statement
of Zarathushtra as he said:
"But if an
able person does not come to help, he shall himself fall into the binding trap
of wrong" (Song 11.6).
If we fail to
pass this self-evaluation, there is still time to do some work oriented to
strengthen our participation in the building of a better society next year and
other years to come. The idea is not to develop a feeling of guilt, the purpose
is to instruct ourselves about the social responsibility that we have in
rehabilitating the world in which we inhabit.
Finally, this is
a time to re-program our Vohu-Khshathra mission on the Path to Radiant
Happiness and Gathic Prosperity.
To all my
partners on the Path to Ushta, with all my "mind and heart" I would
like to express that my entire family and I wish you a Happy New Year full of
the kind of prosperity that Zarathushtra promulgated.
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2002! A YEAR TO SHARE IN VOHU-KHSHATHRA!