Fire in the Home
Maintaining fire in the home as a sacred practice.
Traditional Zoroastrian homes maintain a household fire that is never allowed to die. This fire is treated with reverence, receiving prayers and offerings. It represents divine presence in domestic life.
Let the fire in your home never die.
Household fire connects domestic life with religion.
Home Practice
Written about in
- What Zoroastrianism says about habit and discipline
A traditional Zoroastrian household keeps a fire that is never allowed to die. A habit with a physical object at its centre fails visibly: the flame is either burning or it is not, and nobody has to ask themselves whether they have kept it up.