Then let me tell you a story , usually several big temples have some fixed men in the pujari attire who try to take money from you by various means , so when I was a kid my mom visited one such temple , a pujari literally blackmailed her into giving him money , saying that bad things will happen to me if she didn't give him money , so yeah . Very many places have these crap while others focus on charity for example the Ram Krishna Mission , or like the Dakshineswar temple is such a nice peaceful place which exists for worshipping without any sort of con artists in its vicinity .

Also you should watch PK . It really does question several things about the gurus and stuff while . The movie is kinda an attempt to distinguish between religion itself and the con artists of religion all under a comedic film

>It's the part where the temples take that hair and it becomes commerce

That's why I said , many big temples will try to profit from literally EVERYTHING , because sadly that's what many of them have become

>Basically religion

Many Big temples are really business places . They will try to profit from everything , that being said shaving hair at temples and such is a very common way to thank the deity , it's kind of like " I will do this if my wish is fulfilled" or a "mannat" if you will , and a mannat comes in different forms .

Also this buying of hair doesn't exist only in temples . For example back in my uncle's village there are people who will buy hair or barter an amount of hair for an utensil or such .

>I can't force that

Same for me . It makes me feel so weird and unnatural in my pictures