DISCOURSES & TALKS BY MEHER BABA

ZOROASTER

7th August 1929

Zoroaster lived some 6,000 years ago. His Master was a Jew [Israelite]. But what the world knows about the religion that came from him is practically nothing. All these Zoroastrian rites, rituals and ceremonies have come down from the dasturs [priests] and Zoroaster's followers who began them centuries after his death. For example, those emblems of the Zoroastrian religion — the sadra and kusti — are the outcome of the preachings of the dasturs centuries after Zoroaster's advent. It has no connection with his teachings. They are nothing but "after-creations." I am telling you the absolute truth.

Zoroaster was the greatest Sufi. He was the Father of Sufism, and its very foundation owes its creation to him.

Sufism began with Zoroaster and ended with Muhammad.