Re: Hair
Originally Posted by
Sean
Big cheese Maharishi says that cutting hair releases a subtle energy that interferes with higher states of consciousness. He's probably right but most people just leave the likes of him to it...
Difficult to tell, but I do find such explanations, a little absurd on the face of it. We are taking of energy of realized beings, infinite in other words - and you say it gets depleted if such a soul gets a hair-cut?? I have heard a similar explanation from another new age guru - Jaggi Vasudev. As I said, I find such explanations psuedo-scientific and attempt to give some scientific explanation when it is not necessary and explanation is hardly scientific.
I feel it has all to do with sampradaya symbol than anything else, and each sampradaya may have developed a threory, pros and cons, reasons etc for following such.
Mundas and Jatis have been their since ancient times of Mahabharata, and even now the acetic will either follow either of the 2 trends.
However in the pre-monastic training phase (brahmacharya), being a munda is perhaves universal. After taking monsastic vows saivas generally prefer to be a Jati.
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