Keeping My Bodily Kesh (Hair) and Getting used to the Gazes

Because," Hair today, NOT gone tomorrow".

 
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When I was young, I used to get my share of unkind looks and even comments about my hairy underarms and legs. No more! I show neither in public any more and it doesn't seem to bother my husband, our dog and our bird. I am old enough to appreciate the fact that I will never have "old lady" hair. You know the style, quite short, worn in white curls.

Thanks to the Almighty! You mean you wont have blue rinse either?

Not unless Irene sneaks blue food colouring into my hair oil.

Lol if we cannot cut our hair, why do we cut our fingernails/pull our teeth out?? I understand the 5 K's and one is "Kesh" and I do follow what the guruji said but kesh technically is the hair on your head and not armpit hair or other body hair neccisarily.

A few pages back the thread talks about cutting fingernails.

We've all got to come to our own personal peace with (or without) hair as the argument will go on indefinitely, just like most arguments when it comes to religion and lifestyle.

Kamala ji, you can always find some technicality/ excuse to do what you want to do. Sikhi is not about technicalities and legalisms. If you understand the purposes of keeping kesh, you will also understand why most of us believe that means keeping all the hairs on our body unshorn.

For men, the most troublesome hair is the unshorn kesh on the scalp and also the unshorn beard. For us ladies, it is legs and armpits and eyebrows. (There is some dispute about facial hairs on women. I am of the school that says to leave them alone, but there are good arguments on both sides.) We are all called upon to do some things that are socially difficult; that is part of being Sikh. Some accept the challenge. Some do not.

I hope that you are strong enough to keep all your hairs, if keeping kesh is meaningful to you. If keeping kesh is not meaningful to you, I hope it becomes so. With your inquiring mind and willingness to learn, I believe that someday you would make a fine Khalsa.

Aww thank you Inderjit Kaur :* sweetest way someone has every explained anything to me here! But I'm not amritdhari (yet) because I feel I will maybe one day break the rules and it's worse to accept the terms & conditions and not listen, rather than not accepting it fully when your not ready.. but thank you :* (Y)

Kamala Bhain ji which religion's rule are you not breaking right now? Hindu/Sikh means breaking rules of both so I assume it is one of the other perhaps Islam.

assalam alikum (peace be with you).