Since ages past we Zarathushtrians wear the sudreh and kusti, but most of us hardly realize their great spiritual significance. There are stray references and allusions in the holy Gathas, in Pahlavi texts and in Firdausi’s Shahnameh, which show that these are, in fact, emblems of cosmic initiations received by Asho Zarathushtra and the great Peshdadian Shah Jamshed thousands of years back. The relevant facts are scattered throughout our extant scriptures. Dr Behramshah D. Pithavala had tried his level best to reconstruct the whole picture by placing those facts together.
When an aspirant becomes ready to enter a new stage in......