Mobeds, or priests, perform the Navjote ceremony, welcoming a person into the Zoroastrian faith. Initiates receive a sudreh (white vest) and kushti (sacred cord), which will both be worn from this day forward. After the kushti is tied three times around their waist, they recite: “I pledge my thinking to good thoughts, I pledge my speech to good words, I pledge my actions to good deeds.”