The website has, in the past, also explored topics like, why women should not cut their hair short or trim their eyebrows (for reasons similar to why they shouldn’t leave it untied). While Sattva signifies purity and knowledge and Tamas, ignorance and inertia, the Rajas component of the universe is what gives way to “activity and passion”, which according to Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, leads to an “increase in feelings such as depression, worry, increased sexual thoughts leading to promiscuity”. As per Samkhya philosophy, a branch of Hindu thought, the universe has been created from three gunas or components, Sattva, Tamas and Rajas. A detailed post on the site discusses why women who keep their hair loose are at risk of everything from illness to attracting evil energies.Īccording to the website, when left open, a woman’s hair and the woman herself becomes susceptible to the “Rajas component”. If you’ve heard similar superstitions associated with hair, the website of the right wing organisation, Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, is a good place to swap stories. You don’t want to fight with your family, do you? It will bring harm to your brother.ĭon’t just throw away those strands of hair.

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