Kurehit - Major Prohibitions
Four cardinal prohibitions that Khalsa Sikhs must never violate.
Khalsa Sikhs must avoid: cutting hair, eating ritually slaughtered meat, extramarital relations, and using tobacco. Breaking these requires re-initiation.
These four are the boundaries that must never be crossed.
The kurehits define essential boundaries of Khalsa identity.
Rehat Maryada
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- What Sikhism says about habit and discipline
Four prohibitions — cutting hair, ritually slaughtered meat, extramarital relations, tobacco — with re-initiation required after a breach. Bright lines are easier to hold than gradual standards, and all four can be checked from the outside, which is a different kind of test from the one Simran sets.