Caring for Fire
Proper care for sacred fire as a religious duty.
Caring for sacred fire involves specific rituals: adding clean, dry fuel, reciting prayers, protecting from pollution. Fire tending is a priestly duty, but all Zoroastrians respect fire's sanctity.
Tend the fire with pure hands and pure heart.
Fire tending rituals are elaborate and precise.
Ritual Practice
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- What Zoroastrianism says about habit and discipline
Tending fire has a specified procedure — clean dry fuel, prayers, protection from pollution. Zoroastrianism attaches discipline to concrete tasks rather than to states of mind, and a task can be done adequately on a day when feeling reverent is out of reach.