Guest guest Report post Posted May 8, 2010 PRIYA BHAVAT BANDUVULLARA! VOICE OF THE RISHIS: 37 KLUPTA KESA NAKSHA SHMASHRUM " Let your hair and nails are short " is the hygienical dictum advanced in this ancient saying. While rishis living in penance in desolate forests giving up worldly activities, subsisting on minimum basic needs, it is ordained that hair to be clipped and trimmed to enable them fit and smart and to participate effectively in their worldly duties. It is really amazing how this mandate of hygienical living, makes it incumbent upon the maintenance of seemingly small things of life but precious in the realm of health and hygiene. It does not require elaboration how nails carry bacteria in their pockets, if not clipped short regularly. Similarly long hair kept loose dispell the attention of the person from his regular duties and hinders his active participation in the duty on hand. Tonsuring of the heads of the priests and the sishyas has been thus a customary practice. There are to maintain short cut or crew cut hair style as it is called. Again the question of keeping hair short in length, gives rise to the point, how much short. No physical limits are given to this question and it is left to the wearer of the hair style to decide upon and keep it done. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
