Kesh - Uncut Hair

Extract from Sant Baba Jarnail Singh Ji Bhindranwale Ji's speech regarding Hair:

Tell me, if a son does not look like his father, what do you call him? Those of you sitting here with cut beards, do we believe in Dasam Paatshaah? Tell me, do we?

Sangat: Yes, we believe in him.

Well if we believe in him, then are we joining with him? Our Dasam Paatshaah had a kacherra, kirpan in a gatra, a beautiful dastaar, a beautiful Sri Sahib and Sarbloh kara. We have a string type of thing around our necks, what do they call it? Rakhri? I dont' know what it is. We have a baandar kachee (monkey panties i.e. briefs) and we have no dastaar on our head or beard on our face. How will we call ourselves Guru's Sikhs? How will people call us the sons of our father?

If you want to be sons of your father and my brothers, those of you with cut hair have to keep it after today. And those of you who don't want to be their father's sons, then it's up to you if you want to stay a man or become like women.

If you want to be man, then keep it uncut, and if you don't want to be man, go to Darbar Sahib and do ardaas, "Sache Patshah! Kill us and make us women. And make the women man." Trade off like this. Then, you'll have no beard on your face, nor will the barber have to sharpen his knife on a worn out leather shoe and rub it on your faces. And then neither would I have to have the headache of saying all this and neither would you feel angry after hearing it.

Oi! Now tell me, are you going to become your father's sons or not? Why aren't you answering? Those of you with cut beards, why are you sitting there with your heads down? And it's not going to work out if you don't speak.