An Electric Aspect of Hair

Engineer Nirmal Singh is the Chief Engineer (Retd) of Punjab State Electricity Board. His engineering enterprise is still acknowledged by everybody in the Board. Along with this, he has a wonderful capacity to use his knowledge of electrical engineering in the ordinary affais of life. He compared in several of his lectures the spiritual pleasure of kirtan with electric current. These lectures have been very well received and they reveal the great intellectual genius of S. Nirmal Singh. He can also make almost exact predication about rain with his scientific acumenship. He had predicted well in advance about the continuous heavy rain on 3 September 1988 which lashed Punjab in the last week of Sep. 1988 and everybody knows that Punjab witnessed the most severe floods of the century those days. This known personage has also expressed his views about the hair from the perspective of electric theory and scientific knowledge. His views on the subject are summed up as under for the use and the perusal of the readers.

1. The knot that the hair produce on the head has been a question mark for mankind the world over. Most of the people consider the hair unworthy and thus ignore them. That is why 90% of the male population of the world shave off their heads/moustaches and trim their hair. They follow this as a fashion and suffer.

2. On the basis of science, the importance of hair has been rather great and infinite. Everybody knows the importance of long and thickly hair for women because they are considered the precious wealth of womenfolk. Of course the importance of hair is equal to both man and woman, but man in his ignorance and owing to some unknown reasons looks at the hair differently. In fact, the hair perform an important role in establishing man's unique invisible and constant relationship with the universe. Besides, they also keep us united with our Creator-Lord. Had there been no hair, man would have remained cut off from everything. In that case, he would have looked like a withered or dried up tree and there would have been no obvious relation between man and his creator. It is to maintain this relationship and connection that the Lord had produced roughly one to one and a half hair on each human head.

3. Our knowledge of the hair is rather meager because we have declared them superfluous and unnecessary without ever reflecting over and analysing their role.  Just as a transistor starts broadcasting exactly the same programmes of the radio stations if we put the former on the same frequency with the radio station similarly, we constantly receive from universe electronic and other subtle energy through hair and get benifit from it. Just as there are numerous towers nearby the transmitting station, there are hair on the human head. If the tower near the aerodrome does not function or is knowingly disconnected or dismantled, none of the planes would be in a position to land safely and accidents would occur one after the other. This is what is continuously happening to us. The ill-treatment and harshness we inflict on the hair resuld in numerous bodily disorders and diseases, heart attacks and other fatal ailments. Therefore, the cluster of hair on our head is in fact, our security ring.

4. It requires a full book-length dilate in detail on the importance of hair. In fact, the hair posses magnetic and electric energy. The scientist who invented electricity got his idea from rubbing a stick with the hairn of a cat's body. Human hair are much longer than those of a cat. These hair have the capacity to catch the shortest, medium and largest electronic frequency. They gather together the most subtle messages from the Divine and transmit them direct to mind. That is why sometimes some very strange and alien thoughts come to our mind which ordinarily has no relation to our life. Had it not been so, our life would have been just like a machine and in this vast universe our positiion would have been like those of the deaf and the dumb. The saints, scientists and philosophers all over the world preserve their hair and beards as a precious. This comes to them naturally whereas in other worldly affairs such as their personal appearance (dresses, etc), constructing houses and acquiring household effects they are rather careless. Everybody can understand the reasons behind this: these personages know that it is because of the hair that they are what they are. No power or pelf can provide them this status, this spiritual position.

5. As we have said above, some people will all around get interested in the theme of hair power. It will soon develop into a subject of serious and deep study because the connection of hair is with everything from heavenly energy to physical energy, intellectual wisdom to the martial element and powers of body. The female charm and sex appeal is also because of the hair. It has generally been observed that woman who does not have long and thickly hair does not look charming and attractive inspite of all other physical charms.

6. The hair are of various kinds - plain, curly, heavy, thin, black, brown, etc. A mere look at the hair can reveal to us several of the hidden qualities of the wearer - male or female. The shape of the hair can reveal 15-20% of man's habits and temerament. Just as reading the lines of palm and shape of nose and eyes can help make predictions about the persons, we can learn of the hidden qualities of aperson if we make a serious study of his hair. Thus, the hair are the most important - scientifically and technologically. In the Sikh code of conduct, hair get the primary position, although the Sikh Gurus have ordained to maintain them in their natural unshorn state for various other reasons as well.

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7. The brain, preserved  in the safety of the skull of our head, is the most impotant organ of our body. God has employed one to one-and-a-half lac of additional security guards in the form of hair for the protection of this brain. They resist the blow of any stick, sword,etc because the hair besides being very velvety and slippery are also rather sturdy like the edge of a shaft. (This is how runs the views of Sardar Nirmal Singh).

Knowing all this it is now up to us whether we consider the hair a superfluous cluster on the head or useful guards gifted to us by God.

Arguments of Psychologists

The scientists through their research on different aspects of hair have proved that they are necessary for man's mental and emotional equilibrium. Working on the tendency to trim hair, the researchers in the field of psychology have opined that in the hearts of heart of man there goes on struggle which aims at discarding the male form in favour of female form. On the contrary, a woman finds pleasure in gwining male form. Psychologists say that due to the effect of the two-sided struggle man has started discarding beard, the symbol of his manliness so that he appears like a woman. The famous psychoanalyst Gustaw Jung (1875-1961) has analysed this psychological reason after doing deep study of unconscious mind. He mentioned that a sort of unending war is going on in human minds (both male & female) for the change of sex or to experience the whims of other sex. This urge is operative under two systems or dispositions i.e. anima and animus struggling against each other in the unconscious mind. Anima is suppressed urge which investigates a man to become a female and animus on the other hand works strongly in opposite direction as it wants woman to become a man. Perhaps under the stress of this tendency the Ainu of Japan used to tatoo moustaches on girls. The process would start when the girl was about two years old: small knife cuts would be made above the upper lip and soot or black lead would be rubbed into them. This would go on till the girl reached marriageable age by which time she would have a tattoo resembling a long thick moustache (Ref. Saturday plus. The Tribune dated 26, 1997.)

These forces continue laying their influence on a person in hidden but bit mild way and that is why he does not become fully aware of them. Under the impact of the impulse of anima activity man unconsciously wants to do away with his beard and moustaches. Other features to adopt feminity are beyond his approach for which he is helpless. Perhaps reacting under anima activity youth of today has started imitating women in wearing jewellery and ornaments. Many Indian young boys including players have got their ears pierced and have worn ear rings which is otherwise a feminish ornament meant exclusively for ladies. Some young men do sport bangles on their wrist simply to satisfy the said instinct.

Similarly the young girls feel pleased in wearing men's dresses including using neckties. They have got their long hair converted to the boy-cut for fashion to make their look as much masculine as possible. In the light of such a war going in deep in the human minds at unconscious level, we the Sikhs are immensely greatful to our great Gurus and especially to Guru Gobind Singh who directed us to maintain our image and form as given us by Akalpurkh. In this way the sex changing struggle going on in human minds will at least not effect Sikhs and we shall experience peace and stability in mind. We can realize only after accepting the hair because it is only by maintaining them that we can retain our divine image.

Can we expect this from the community that it will make endeavours with which this concept of divine image of man or complete form of man spreads all over the world and makes man realize that he should not go in for fashions, rather he should go near the reality provided by Nature.

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