Will it be "off topic" if I reminded you that many of the first core of children were hippies on a quest for God and truth and were wearing long hair/beards and were asked to cut/shave it all off? They all did, as a proof of love for God, surrender to him, with a clean heart, not to please Seniors.
In the same way that Sisters had to plait loose wild long manes or grow their hair in case they were wearing it short. Whenever SS tell these stories, they describe those hippies as disgusting looking people that were saved by BKs. Now they are presentable and even to be proud of (some became highrank BKs, obedience pays!!). The drive was, I guess, for those souls, gratefulness to God from the "long lost and now found children". Possibly the root of all problems lies in this mistaking human gurus for God. I agree with Di about the deep significance of hair cutting as loosing, giving up your power, allowing someone to strip it off from you. Would resistance be ego, or real healthy spiritual power?
I am personally convinced that there's a lot of benefit and king's sanskars in not conforming and not bending. Time will tell. In the meantime, I whip the system with my dreadlocks!
In the same way that Sisters had to plait loose wild long manes or grow their hair in case they were wearing it short. Whenever SS tell these stories, they describe those hippies as disgusting looking people that were saved by BKs. Now they are presentable and even to be proud of (some became highrank BKs, obedience pays!!). The drive was, I guess, for those souls, gratefulness to God from the "long lost and now found children". Possibly the root of all problems lies in this mistaking human gurus for God. I agree with Di about the deep significance of hair cutting as loosing, giving up your power, allowing someone to strip it off from you. Would resistance be ego, or real healthy spiritual power?
I am personally convinced that there's a lot of benefit and king's sanskars in not conforming and not bending. Time will tell. In the meantime, I whip the system with my dreadlocks!