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<blockquote data-quote="Harjas Kaur Khalsa" data-source="post: 86672" data-attributes="member: 2125"><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue">ਕਬੀਰ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਿ ਇਕ ਸਿਉ ਕੀਏ ਆਨ ਦੁਬਿਧਾ ਜਾਇ ॥ </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue">kabeer preeth eik sio keeeae aan dhubidhhaa jaae ||</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue">Kabeer, when you are in love with the One Lord, duality and alienation depart.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue">ਭਾਵੈ ਲਾਂਬੇ ਕੇਸ ਕਰੁ ਭਾਵੈ ਘਰਰਿ ਮੁਡਾਇ ॥੨੫॥ </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue">bhaavai laanbae kaes kar bhaavai gharar muddaae ||25||</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue">You may have long hair, or you may shave your head bald. ||25||</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue">~SGGS Ji p. 1365</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Keeping kesh as a practice of holding vibration for japa is a particular yogic practice. It is not the ONLY yogic practice. If you notice in the world, the religious people of all traditions, you see three types. Those who keep hair or beard. Those who shave themselves bald. And those who have no preference. Some keep long beard and shaved head or mixed in the same tradition of shaven initiates as well as uncut hairs. Basically, hair in yogic theory affects your perception of subtle energies, vibrations such as mantras and shakti, or even Dhikr as in Shaivism and Sufism. Hair is an extention and heightened instrument of perception of your mind, not unlike a cat's whiskers. Most modern people are completely disconnected from their own body and not in touch with traditional phrases such as "My hairs stood on end." Your hairs are a form of the skin's perception as well as a part of the spine and brain. Most modern people shave their armpit hairs and slather deodorant which blocks the pores, not realizing that the sweat which naturally trickles down the armpit hairs acts as a wick to draw out the waste products from the body containing viruses, bacteria, hormones, etc to regulate and keep everything in balance. It is also ignored that 80% of all human breast cancers first occur in the upper outer quadrant, which is directly below the armpit. So the wisdom of modernity fails to impress me. It is what it is... disconnection and absence of fine tuned perception of the natural phenomena and the body's instinctive perceptual wisdom. And this is precisely what these forms of yogic practice intend to enhance... perception and intuition, either of inner silence through shaven head, or energetic attunement through uncut hairs.</p><p></p><p></p><p>In some traditions such as Buddhism, and Christian contemplative Orders, there is a strong emphasis on silence and hours long meditation. Such traditions are associated with shaving the hair to reduce distractions. There is a tradition that Jesus kept uncut hair as a consecrated nazirite for life. This would reflect that he was sinless in human nature and another sign of his identity as an avataar.</p><p></p><p>In Jewish Kabbalah, the original state of a man was to keep long hair, and in certain vow of a nazirite, the hair is kept uncut for a period of time. It was the fallen sinful state of man which rendered the keeping of uncut hair as potentially harmful. It is from Kabbalistic teaching that orthodox Jews shave their heads, but keep untrimmed the hairs on the side of their heads and beards. Tantrics on the other hand, both Shaivites and some schools of Buddhism keep long uncut hair, and tend toward the more intensive tapasya practices such as meditating in cremation grounds, drinking from human skulls, commanding spirits, and in other ways trying to master sansaara. Tibetan tantrics and Bon shamans as well as Jamaican Rastafarians have a lot in common with Shaivism.</p><p></p><p>The jura basically comes from Shiva. It is a practice of mastery over the mind and consciousness. The two forms are unclean, matted hairs which Guru Nanak Dev Ji criticized, and the keeping of clean, combed kesh which Guruji advocated. So we see, even examining the yogic use of hair, the hair is worn as a seal over the dasm duar, and kept purified with Naama japa to cleanse the negative influences which could reside in hair as coming from the hormones and neurotransmitters and bacterial waste excretion which is residue from unclean and impure thoughts of the human mind and brain. </p><p></p><p>A Sikh is like a purified householder yogi who practices moderation instead of severity. This is the Dharam and teaching of Guruji's Raja Yoga. We can see that keeping hair can deliberately be a form of spiritual practice. But without the practice, simply keeping hair is a vanity and corruption.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Teal">ਕਬੀਰ ਨ੍ਰਿਪ ਨਾਰੀ ਕਿਉ ਨਿੰਦੀਐ ਕਿਉ ਹਰਿ ਚੇਰੀ ਕਉ ਮਾਨੁ ॥ </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Teal">kabeer nrip naaree kio nindheeai kio har chaeree ko maan ||</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Teal">Kabeer, why do you slander the wife of the king? Why do you honor the slave of the Lord? </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Teal"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Teal">ਓਹ ਮਾਂਗ ਸਵਾਰੈ ਬਿਖੈ ਕਉ ਓਹ ਸਿਮਰੈ ਹਰਿ ਨਾਮੁ ॥੧੬੦॥ </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Teal">ouh maang savaarai bikhai ko ouh simarai har naam ||160||</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Teal">Because one combs her hair for corruption, while the other remembers the Name of the Lord.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Teal">~SGGS Ji p. 1373</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.artmoment.com/kailasyatra/Pashpatinath/PashpatinathSadhusm.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.religionfacts.com/hinduism/images/practices/sadhu-shaivite-cc-elishams-200.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/south_asia_sikh_anniversary/img/8.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u114/Summercowgirl85/old_rastafarian.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.islamiccenterofyubacity.org/Naqshbandi%20Sufi%20Order_files/image003.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://images.usatoday.com/news/_photos/2006/12/11/holocaust-topper.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Both John the Baptist and Jesus were from the strict Tzadokite lineage. We know for certain that John the Baptist was a nazirite consecrated from birth. Jesus remains a subject of dispute with archaelogical views putting him squarely in the Zadokite community of Qumran of the Dead Sea scrolls. In which case he almost certainly would have been an unshorn nazirite. The fact that he famously broke the nazirite prohibition against strong drink by using wine, and even making wine central to his pujas, underscores his mythological relationship to the Greek god Dionysus. It might also have a relationship to some degree of tantrism in his teachings which completely flouted conventional mores. Another Shaivite association. <a href="http://www.christianorigins.com/zadok.html" target="_blank">Zadokite Priesthood, the original Hasidim</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.albinotricolors.com/images/xATCpix%20buddhist%20students.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.adolphus.nl/sadhpix/1590.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/danteprime/TFs/HK.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.sspxseminary.org/whoweare/_images/brothers.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/300980657_375e343c9a.jpg?v=0" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Native American Indian tribes and shamans had a variety of spiritual practices involving hair. Most keeping uncut hair. As an asiatic race related to ancient Mongolians, they have very little facial hair. The many Native Indian tribes have a lot in common with the spiritualism of Siberian Mongolian Shaman, in some ways a derivative of pre-Buddhist Bon Shamanism which initiates act as the Dalai Lama's official state oracles by inducing trance states. This shows another similarity with Shaivism as a tantric shakti path, with heavy emphasis on drumming, ethneogens (sacred hallucinogenic plants) and altered states of consciousness.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/139/397836707_b730b77dba.jpg?v=0" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://www.okay.com/dunc/images/shaman.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>So as you can see there are ancient traditions throughout the world, and each has similarities. Gurbani is clear that neither the shaven head nor the long haired head makes the spirituality, but overcoming duality and Maya have to do with sincerity and genuineness of spiritual practice... and having a Satguru. It is equally clear that Guruji's path is a path which respects the power of hair and keeps it as a form of submission and surrender of the ego mind to God and Guru.</p><p></p><p></p><p>~Bhul chak maaf</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Harjas Kaur Khalsa, post: 86672, member: 2125"] [INDENT][COLOR="Blue"]ਕਬੀਰ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਿ ਇਕ ਸਿਉ ਕੀਏ ਆਨ ਦੁਬਿਧਾ ਜਾਇ ॥ kabeer preeth eik sio keeeae aan dhubidhhaa jaae || Kabeer, when you are in love with the One Lord, duality and alienation depart. ਭਾਵੈ ਲਾਂਬੇ ਕੇਸ ਕਰੁ ਭਾਵੈ ਘਰਰਿ ਮੁਡਾਇ ॥੨੫॥ bhaavai laanbae kaes kar bhaavai gharar muddaae ||25|| You may have long hair, or you may shave your head bald. ||25|| ~SGGS Ji p. 1365[/COLOR][/INDENT] Keeping kesh as a practice of holding vibration for japa is a particular yogic practice. It is not the ONLY yogic practice. If you notice in the world, the religious people of all traditions, you see three types. Those who keep hair or beard. Those who shave themselves bald. And those who have no preference. Some keep long beard and shaved head or mixed in the same tradition of shaven initiates as well as uncut hairs. Basically, hair in yogic theory affects your perception of subtle energies, vibrations such as mantras and shakti, or even Dhikr as in Shaivism and Sufism. Hair is an extention and heightened instrument of perception of your mind, not unlike a cat's whiskers. Most modern people are completely disconnected from their own body and not in touch with traditional phrases such as "My hairs stood on end." Your hairs are a form of the skin's perception as well as a part of the spine and brain. Most modern people shave their armpit hairs and slather deodorant which blocks the pores, not realizing that the sweat which naturally trickles down the armpit hairs acts as a wick to draw out the waste products from the body containing viruses, bacteria, hormones, etc to regulate and keep everything in balance. It is also ignored that 80% of all human breast cancers first occur in the upper outer quadrant, which is directly below the armpit. So the wisdom of modernity fails to impress me. It is what it is... disconnection and absence of fine tuned perception of the natural phenomena and the body's instinctive perceptual wisdom. And this is precisely what these forms of yogic practice intend to enhance... perception and intuition, either of inner silence through shaven head, or energetic attunement through uncut hairs. In some traditions such as Buddhism, and Christian contemplative Orders, there is a strong emphasis on silence and hours long meditation. Such traditions are associated with shaving the hair to reduce distractions. There is a tradition that Jesus kept uncut hair as a consecrated nazirite for life. This would reflect that he was sinless in human nature and another sign of his identity as an avataar. In Jewish Kabbalah, the original state of a man was to keep long hair, and in certain vow of a nazirite, the hair is kept uncut for a period of time. It was the fallen sinful state of man which rendered the keeping of uncut hair as potentially harmful. It is from Kabbalistic teaching that orthodox Jews shave their heads, but keep untrimmed the hairs on the side of their heads and beards. Tantrics on the other hand, both Shaivites and some schools of Buddhism keep long uncut hair, and tend toward the more intensive tapasya practices such as meditating in cremation grounds, drinking from human skulls, commanding spirits, and in other ways trying to master sansaara. Tibetan tantrics and Bon shamans as well as Jamaican Rastafarians have a lot in common with Shaivism. The jura basically comes from Shiva. It is a practice of mastery over the mind and consciousness. The two forms are unclean, matted hairs which Guru Nanak Dev Ji criticized, and the keeping of clean, combed kesh which Guruji advocated. So we see, even examining the yogic use of hair, the hair is worn as a seal over the dasm duar, and kept purified with Naama japa to cleanse the negative influences which could reside in hair as coming from the hormones and neurotransmitters and bacterial waste excretion which is residue from unclean and impure thoughts of the human mind and brain. A Sikh is like a purified householder yogi who practices moderation instead of severity. This is the Dharam and teaching of Guruji's Raja Yoga. We can see that keeping hair can deliberately be a form of spiritual practice. But without the practice, simply keeping hair is a vanity and corruption. [INDENT][COLOR="Teal"]ਕਬੀਰ ਨ੍ਰਿਪ ਨਾਰੀ ਕਿਉ ਨਿੰਦੀਐ ਕਿਉ ਹਰਿ ਚੇਰੀ ਕਉ ਮਾਨੁ ॥ kabeer nrip naaree kio nindheeai kio har chaeree ko maan || Kabeer, why do you slander the wife of the king? Why do you honor the slave of the Lord? ਓਹ ਮਾਂਗ ਸਵਾਰੈ ਬਿਖੈ ਕਉ ਓਹ ਸਿਮਰੈ ਹਰਿ ਨਾਮੁ ॥੧੬੦॥ ouh maang savaarai bikhai ko ouh simarai har naam ||160|| Because one combs her hair for corruption, while the other remembers the Name of the Lord. ~SGGS Ji p. 1373[/COLOR][/INDENT] [IMG]http://www.artmoment.com/kailasyatra/Pashpatinath/PashpatinathSadhusm.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://www.religionfacts.com/hinduism/images/practices/sadhu-shaivite-cc-elishams-200.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/south_asia_sikh_anniversary/img/8.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u114/Summercowgirl85/old_rastafarian.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.islamiccenterofyubacity.org/Naqshbandi%20Sufi%20Order_files/image003.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://images.usatoday.com/news/_photos/2006/12/11/holocaust-topper.jpg[/IMG] Both John the Baptist and Jesus were from the strict Tzadokite lineage. We know for certain that John the Baptist was a nazirite consecrated from birth. Jesus remains a subject of dispute with archaelogical views putting him squarely in the Zadokite community of Qumran of the Dead Sea scrolls. In which case he almost certainly would have been an unshorn nazirite. The fact that he famously broke the nazirite prohibition against strong drink by using wine, and even making wine central to his pujas, underscores his mythological relationship to the Greek god Dionysus. It might also have a relationship to some degree of tantrism in his teachings which completely flouted conventional mores. Another Shaivite association. [URL="http://www.christianorigins.com/zadok.html"]Zadokite Priesthood, the original Hasidim[/URL] [IMG]http://www.albinotricolors.com/images/xATCpix%20buddhist%20students.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://www.adolphus.nl/sadhpix/1590.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/danteprime/TFs/HK.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://www.sspxseminary.org/whoweare/_images/brothers.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/300980657_375e343c9a.jpg?v=0[/IMG] Native American Indian tribes and shamans had a variety of spiritual practices involving hair. Most keeping uncut hair. As an asiatic race related to ancient Mongolians, they have very little facial hair. The many Native Indian tribes have a lot in common with the spiritualism of Siberian Mongolian Shaman, in some ways a derivative of pre-Buddhist Bon Shamanism which initiates act as the Dalai Lama's official state oracles by inducing trance states. This shows another similarity with Shaivism as a tantric shakti path, with heavy emphasis on drumming, ethneogens (sacred hallucinogenic plants) and altered states of consciousness. [IMG]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/139/397836707_b730b77dba.jpg?v=0[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.okay.com/dunc/images/shaman.jpg[/IMG] So as you can see there are ancient traditions throughout the world, and each has similarities. Gurbani is clear that neither the shaven head nor the long haired head makes the spirituality, but overcoming duality and Maya have to do with sincerity and genuineness of spiritual practice... and having a Satguru. It is equally clear that Guruji's path is a path which respects the power of hair and keeps it as a form of submission and surrender of the ego mind to God and Guru. ~Bhul chak maaf [/QUOTE]
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