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Summary of Question:	Kara
Category:	Sikh Practices
Date Posted:	Friday, 9/15/2000 1:42 AM MDT

Satnam. I recently returned from a ladies camp. I noticed that many women wore the Kara on the left hand. From the earliest I can remember I was always told to wear my Kara on the right hand. At the camp, one of the ladies was kind to enlighten me on the knowledge that females wear the Kara on the left to direct more female sensitivity, & to increase intution. Please clarify this for me as my sister tells me that I follow any thing anyone sticks under my nose. Many thanks.

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Woman's energy is subject to the changing tide of her cycle. Like the tides of the ocean change with the changing fazes of the moon. So, the women can help channelise the fluctuation of her emotions with the steel of her Karah on her left wrist, her moon side.

The man has his moon center in the chin, and his emotional energy is channelized by the hair of his beard on this moon center(chin). For the man, the right wrist channelises the sun energy to be steady and unfluctuating.

If you think about what is mindless, perhaps, you will question why a turban is so important for the Indian Sikh man, and the woman gets a sliding off her head chuni to wrestle with.