matted hair in movie "Baraka"

here, just go to this site - the pics and explainations are already there.
http://www.knottyworld.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=4814

basically, the images that you´ll see are showing someone meditating (hinduism) and then someone using a dread to follow what he´s reading out of some book (judaism)

in the last picture, is he using his dread as a pointer to read the torah?

that looks really fascinating, I wanna see the movie now...

NAMASTE


Well i have seen the movie and to clear the light on the brother in the pic he is a Vaisnava.He has what is called a tilak on his forhead
that he shows to all and the divine what path he follows.The tilak that he has is vaisnava.Vaisnavas follow the teachings of the divine god VISHNU.
Now most Vaisnavas have short or no hair he shows he is by his locks that he is a sadu.A holy man who has gave up all to follow a life devoted to the path of the divine.As far as his use a one of his locks to read this is a custum among many sadus or holy men and women that started from Lord Shiva.
It is a great movie.When i blew the picture up ithought he was reading the Ramayana a great hindu epic.And when i did it was.It took time to blow up the wwords for me to read but there it was in plain site.Hope this helps,Pritam.

yeah, that does help, man. but i could have sworn that in that scene, they were showing nothing buy rabbis and other people near a wall praying/reading/something.

the thing on his head - i thought that was part of judaism - like it has at least one miniature scroll of something inside of it. but you seem to know more about this than i do, so...