Describing the fate of an ‘abandoned’ soul
when prayers are said elsewhere after the paidust
Adi F. Doctor
Let’s see what happens today when many Parsis in Bombay have the sachkar and geh sarna ceremonies performed at one place, viz in one of the upper bunglis of Doongerwadi, but have the rest of the ceremonies till the dawn of charum, performed at an atash behram or an agiary.
Suppose one Fali Fekuchand passes away and his funeral service is to be held at the Albless Bungli. From the time of the sachkar ceremony, Fali’s soul is sitting in his kehrp (home or ‘spaceship’ of the soul) plumb near his head, deeply engrossed in viewing the wide panorama of......