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What should Sikh parents do if their minor children wants to cut their kesh?

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What should Sikh parents do if their minor children wants to cut their kesh?
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    1. ਕੁਲਵਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ

      The children need to be convinced, to not cut the Kesh and maintain the Sikhi Saroop, as given by Akalpurakh, by teaching them to remain in Hukam. The Sikh History has many examples of Gursikhs, who didn’t compromise on principles and didn’t agree to abandon the Sikh Faith and accepted Physical Death, instead of dying Spiritual Death. The youngest of the martyrs were Sahibzada Zorawar Singh and Fateh Singh, who got bricked alive, but didn’t abandon the faith.

    2. hkandola
      Scholar

      First lead by example with good SIKHI values. Explain that most important about being a SIKH is to be a good human being. When a child is given good values he or she will not cut hair. Even after all efforts child insist let him cut hair. Continue teaching SIKHI values leading by example child will come back. Do not force ever..

    3. sarbjitsingh
      Scholar

      The main target of Gurmat is to understand the Hukam of Akal Purkh and try to become Sachyaar /Truthful person.
      ਹੁਕਮਿ ਰਜਾਈ ਚਲਣਾ ਨਾਨਕ ਲਿਖਿਆ ਨਾਲਿ ॥੧॥ Jap – 1
      At the same time, we must understand that whatever we do, we should be ready to bear the consequences.
      Akal Purkh has created all the body parts with specific purposes. If we play with any of the body parts then we may suffer in the long run.
      ਇਹੁ ਸਰੀਰੁ ਸਭੁ ਧਰਮੁ ਹੈ ਜਿਸੁ ਅੰਦਰਿ ਸਚੇ ਕੀ ਵਿਚਿ ਜੋਤਿ ॥ – 309
      This refers to not only the hair at the head but also at all the body parts. While fiddling with the hair at any part of the body, we disturbing the equilibrium of the skin.
      Hair are live when they are attached to the body. When they are dead, they start coming out. Hence, every Sikh is supposed to comb his hair to keep them neat and clean.
      Similarly, nails are also live and dead. Pink nails are live and no one can dare to cut them, because they have sense organs. The dead nails are black/brown/white, which do not have sense organs. Hence, we can cut them to keep our body clean. Only difference is that hair do not have sense organs, hence people can cut them without any pain. But definitely we are disturbing the equilibrium of the body, for which one will have to pay in the long run. Many unwanted elements come out of the body with the help of hair.
      In olden days most of the people and the religious leaders used to keep hair. All the Sikhs were having hair as they were taught to understand and follow the Hukam of Akal Purkh.
      Everybody follows his own opinion, which get developed depending upon the education one gets from his surroundings. We cannot force anyone to accept our opinion. We can only educate and try to convince for the truthful living depending upon the laws of nature.

      Please go through the following article for the details
      http://www.geocities.ws/sarbjitsingh/Bani9010GurMagPart23D20140724.pdf

      ਗੁਰਮਤਿ ਦੀ ਖੋਜ ਸਬੰਧੀ ਹੋਰ ਵਿਸ਼ਿਆਂ ਤੇ ਜਾਣਕਾਰੀ ਹਾਸਲ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ ਇਸ ਲਿੰਕ ਤੇ ਕਲਿਕ ਕਰੋ ਜੀ
      Please visit this website to get more information about research on Gurbani.
      https://gurmat-research.com/