The issue of spiritual and moral education and tolerance in the “Avesta”

The religion of Zoroastrianism appeared at the beginning of the first millennium BC and it was widely spread in the territory of Central Asia, Iran, Afghanistan, India, Azerbaijan and many other countries in the Middle East. The Avesta, as the sacred book of Zoroastrianism, is a unique source of socio-economic, cultural and spiritual life of the time. The humanistic views in the book developed human spiritual and moral attitudes not only towards the man itself, but also including the interaction of the whole being: soil, air, water, universe, stars and the world of animals. The three-thousand-year development of the peoples of the regions where Zoroastrianism was highly spread, the evolution of human society and the laws of its development were worked out directly on the basis of the laws and norms of the Avesta. In particular, the fact that the socio-economic, cultural, spiritual and moral life and values of the peoples of Central Asia were formed under the strong influence of the Avesta defines its essence as a historical phenomenon.