The Kusti Ritual
Daily untying and retying of the sacred cord with prayers.
The kusti is the sacred cord worn around the waist. It is untied and retied five times daily with prayers, renewing one's commitment to fight evil and follow truth. This is the basic daily practice.
With each tying of the kusti, renew your commitment to truth.
The kusti ritual is the most basic Zoroastrian practice.
Daily Practice
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- What Zoroastrianism says about habit and discipline
The kusti is untied and retied five times a day, each time renewing the commitment to fight evil and follow truth. The genius of it is size: the unit of discipline is a knot, small enough that no day is too bad to do it.