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09/28/2013

Superstitions

"Just to inform you 

these week due to our religious thing I will not be able to shave 

I known these is silly" 

 

I stay in India because there is not one day where I don’t miss falling from my chair. When I get this type of sms from my colleagues for instance… 

 

Or when I get comments from this other colleague (a very educated and smart guy who can spell English this one): 

 

“If you remember our first interview I had changed the date. Because I had to come on an auspicious day, with the stars and everything. Now if you see I had done the same last time and I stayed 10 years in that company.” 

 

No comment…

08/10/2012

Summer serie "pics of India on the spur of the moment" - Losing hair?

I have talked at length about hair and hairs and hair stuff - a big topic in India!

And here is one clinic that offers to get you your hair back!

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But careful cause you might also get a new face!

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01/08/2012

About the significance of hair in Hindu mythology

“Hair is a powerful metaphor in Hindu mythology.

Krishna has curly hair. krishna-007.jpgBalarama has straight silky hair. Shiva has thick matted hair. The Goddesses – Lakshmi, Saraswati and Durga – have loose unbound hair. 

Hair has long been used in India to convey a message.

 

Unbound unruly hair represents wild nature.

Well oiled and combed hair represents culture.

That is why the wild Kali’s hair is unbound while the domestic Gauri’s hair is well bound and in her temples devotees make offerings of gajra, a string of flowers to tie up the hair.

In the Mahabharata, Draupadi’s unbound haKali-s.jpgir represents her fury.

In the Ramayana, the last jewel of Sita is the hairpin that she gives Hanuman to convey to Ram that her honor, and his reputation, stand in a precarious position.  

Shiva’s dreadlocks represent the potent power of his mind that enables him to catch and bind the unruly and wild river-goddess Ganga.

Shaving the head is associated with asceticism.

Buddhist monks shaved their heads.

Jain monks plucked their hair from the roots; to survive the pain is to convey that one is willing to suffer the challenges offered by monasticism.

Brahmins shaved their head but left a tuft in the end, an indicator that they were not monks but very much part of worldly life. This Brahmin tuft is tied up to show coshiva1.jpgntrol; Chanakya of legend famously untied this tuft to display his rage and tied it only when the Nanda dynasty of Magadha had been brought to its knees.

The hair of widows was shaved to enforce monasticism on them. It was this or the pyre, in medieval India, for those unfortunate women. The head is shaved to display bereavement as well as devotion.”

Source: http://devdutt.com/the-offering-of-hair/