Totally wrong. Seeking god or salvation blah blah blah has NOTHING to do with PATITS. A Hindu is NOT a PATIT..neither is a Chinese Buddhist, President Bush, or .... Osama Bin laden..or Kofi Annan.....ONLY an AMRITDHAREE who cuts his HAIR is a PATIT. ALL the SIX BILLION people of thsi world can cut their Hair...foreskins..and whatever else they wnat..and still SEEK "god/kalimata/jesus/etc etc etc etc.... BUT nay AMRITDHAREE who cuts his/her hair..automatically becoems a PATIT..but he/she can still go on "seeking" GOD...whether he FINDS GOD or not...aha..thats the real question..and OBSERVATION Sardarni ji. Anyone who doesnt want to be aptit..has two choices..DONT take Amrti..or DONT cut your hair. No body is Forcing ether choice on YOU. ~Gyani jarnail Singh
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Because people mistake that kes is something you have to keep only if you are amrit chukk. All the kakkars are something worn on the body, they have a significance to the body. If you are amritdhari, they should not be removed. Yet, if I am replacing a kara, I take off my kara (mine is stuck on actually, but for example).
I can take off my kara, but I can't take off my hand.
If I go to an airport, I must remove kirpan due to security or I can't travel. I can take off my kirpan, but I don't take off Guruji's kirpa of my right to defend against injustice. If I take off any kakkars, (while amritdhari shouldn't) this alone doesn't break my amrit. It may be a mistake, but it isn't bujjar kurehit.
If I remove keski to do isnaan, I am not taking off my hairs.
When someone born a Sikh removes kes, whether they are amritdhari or not, they break with Guruji. How can it be, now after all these generations of Sikhi, and all these shaheeds died instead of renouncing Sikhi by giving up kes, that suddenly our kids can just go cutting?
What importance is the hair if you are uncut or if you cut?
If hair has only religious significance, why keep? These mistakes are why the youth think keeping kes is old-fashioned. They know you can still be a nice person without kes. And they see hairs having no purpose other than appearance. So, it is merely fashion statement. To believe you can alter the body with circumcision, body modification piercings, tatooing, and shorn kes...only later to decide if you want to become amritdhari...it's never going to happen like that.
Cutting kes crosses a spiritual line for a Sikh. What is the function and purpose of hair? In modern society, doctors and scientists say it is a useless appendage. Cut, style, bleach, dye, curl, whatever. Makes no difference. And young people think they are so modern, so sharp believing this. They wanna be like everybody else to fit in. But is society right? Is kes a useless appendage? If so, then it is only a religious decoration and doesn't matter if you cut.
Actually hair has an intimate relationship to the spine and brain as energetic spiritual centers of the body. On a subtle level, the hairs, particularly of the head are like an antenna which picks up electrical-magnetic current.
Hair can be charged. This is why, in windy weather or with balloons, or near electric current, the hairs get charge and stand on end.
If you are a Sikh, the first fundamental of being a Sikh is don't cut the hairs. That distinguishes us from all others.
It is a bond between us and our Satguru. The purpose of the hairs is, as Sikhs, we are meant to jap Naam. Japping Naam creates a vibration that has an electrical-magnetic current on a subtle level.
And we are supposed to charge our bodies with this current of Naam, to lift our vibration as part of becoming Gurmukh, or jeevan-mukt. We raise ourselves energetically to receive the blessings of Guruji.
Everything we are doing in Sikhi has a purpose. We tie the kes in a jura. You can't tie a jura if you have cut off your kes. A sikh without a jura, a rishi knot is missing something fundamental to spiritual practice.
The jura covers the dasam duar, the tenth gate, the opening at the crown of the head. It is an energetic center of the body. It is the practice of a Sikh to tie hair here, in this way. And the purpose is to put spiritual vibration of Shabad Gurbani and Naam into the hairs, and then wrap it over the spiritual opening to protect the thoughts of the mind and lift the whole atma to Waheguru.
This is why keski, instead of kes as a kakkar is so important. Because girls as well as boys have this same spiritual physiology. Girls also have a dasam duar, a spiritual opening, and ability to reach high spiritual states and vibrational level. Yet, modernly, Sikh girls don't even wear a jura. It's a choice, like a fashion statement. Because they don't know the spiritual purpose of keeping kes is to be a sant-sipahi.
No soldier is ready for battle with long hairs trailing down which can be pulled. And no Sikh sant cuts off his spiritual-vibrational connection with his Guru. So we have all these things. Sikh girls only keep hairs covered in Gurudwara. And boys are cutting and only wear kara for decoration. The religion has become symbolic only. The significance of Sikhi as an intense spiritual practice has been lost. Keski and dastaar is your crown. It insulates the spiritual Naam currents in the kes and uplifts your whole jeevan.
If you cut hairs, that's it. You've lost Sikhi. You are only name of Sikh. The biggest khanda and all the bhangra in the world won't bring it back. But if you want to be a Sikh, become a disciple of the Guru. Do ardas for Gursikhi, ask forgiveness of the sangat, and
stop cutting. Then be a Sikh, say your nitenam, keep amrit vela, simran, do seva, give dasvandh. This life is passing away quickly. Why waste your precious time clinging to fake things that get you shipwrecked like a bhoot to maya? Cling to Guruji who loves you, who has the power to carry you safely across the ocean of suffering.
Bhai Taru Singh chose shaheedi to keep his hairs because he was a Sikh of the Guru. His spiritual connection to Guruji was more important then losing life itself. Any enemy can physically crush this body, but only the Sikh has the choice to let go of his Guru. That is the same as losing his religion.
- Hukamnama written by Sri Gobind Singh ji:
"Sarbat sangat Kabul Guru rakhe ga Tusa ute asaadee bahut khusi hai Tusi Khande da Amrit Panja to lena Kes rakhne...ih asadee mohur hair; Kachh, Kirpan da visah nahee karna SARB LOH da kara hath rakhna Dono vakat kesa dee palna karna Sarbat sangat abhakhia da kutha Khave naheen, Tamakoo na vartana Bhadni tatha kanya-maran-vale so mel na rakhe Meene, Massandei, Ramraiye ki sangat na baiso Gurbani parhni...Waheguru, Waheguru japna Guru kee rahat rakhnee Sarbat sangat oopar meri khushi hai.
Patshahi Dasvi Jeth 26, Samat 1756
(To the entire sangat at Kabul. The Guru will protect the Sangat, I am pleased with you all. You should take baptism by the sword, from the Five Beloveds. Keep your hair uncut for this is a seal of the Guru, Accept the use of shorts and a sword. Always wear IRON KARA on your wrist, Keep your hair clean and comb it twice a day. Do not eat Halal (Kosher) meat, Do not use tobacco in any form, Have no connection with those who kill their daughters Or permit the cutting of their children's hair. Do not associate with Meenas, Massands and Ram-raiyas (anti-Sikh cults) Recite the Guru's hymns Meditate on "The Name of our Wonderful Lord", Follow the Sikh code of discipline I give the entire sangat my blessing)
Signature of 10th Guru Jeth 26, 1756 Bikrami (23rd May 1699 A.D)
Guru Gobind Singh: Information from Answers.com
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