Hari Raya Saraswati adalah hari untuk memperingati turunnya Ilmu Pengetahuan.

Umat Hindu di Bali merayakan dengan melakukan persembahyangan di Pura, Sekolah, Perkantoran, dsb.

Hari Raya Saraswati umat Hindu melakukan persembahyangan kepada Dewi Saraswati yang dikenal sebagai “Dewi Ilmu Pengetahuan”.

Dewi Saraswati merupakan Shakti dari Dewa Brahma.

Pada saat Hari Raya Nyepi, umat dianjurkan untuk melakukan Meditasi, perenungana, dbs.

Sehari Sebelum hari Raya Nyepi, Umat merayakan upacara Pengrupukan.
Pada hari ini, umat melakukan persembayhangan untuk menetralisir, perngaruh-pengaruh buruk yang ada di alam semesta.
Umat juga membuat Ogoh-ogoh sebagai ajang kreatifitas yang menggambarkan Bhuta Kala, effek negatif. Pada hari ini juga mengarak Ogoh-ogoh dan membakar/menghancurkan Ogoh-ogoh tsb, sebagai simbol dari kekalahan pengaruh-pengaruh Buruk.

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Umat kembali melakukan aktifitas biasa, sehari setelah hari raya Nyepi atau disebut Ngembak Gni

Pada hari ini 6 Januari 2008 umat Hindu di Bali merayakan upaacara Shiwa Ratri. Upacara ini datang setiap tahun menurut kalender bali, tepatnya satu hari sebelum Tilem ke-Pitu. Dimana Tilem kepitu ini merupakan “malam tergelap” sepanjang tahun. Pada hari Shiwa Ratri ini dewa Shiwa melakukan Meditasi.
Shiwa Ratri juga merupakan malam untuk perenungan dosa-dosa yang pernah dilakukan oleh umat manusia sepanjang tahun, dan bahkan sepanjang umur hidupnya. Umat Hindu di Bali berharap pada malam Shiwa Ratri ini dosa-dosa yang pernah dilakukan dapat diampuni dan tidak mengulangi dosa-dosa yang pernah dilakukan. Umat Hindu di Bali melakukan persembahyangan ke tempat-tempat suci / Pura dan melakukan perenungan atas segala kesalahan dan dosa-dosa. Upacara ini dapat dijumpai hampir di seluruh bagian Pulau Bali.

Shiwa Ratri dibali mempunyai cerita rakyat yang sampai saat ini masih dikenang oleh setiap umat. Cerita itu adalah Cerita Lubdaka.
Yang mana Lubdaka adalah seorang pemburu yang melakukan pemburuan hampir setiap saat di hutan.

Ceria ini akan dibahas pada lain waktu.

Selamat Hari Raya Shiwa Ratri.

BALI November 24, 2007. is a special day set aside on the Balinese calendar to give thanks to Sang Hyang Pasupati, Lord of heirlooms, for the creation of metal goods.

On that day, specific offerings are made in the home for kitchen implements, garden tools and metallic parts of machinery, vehicles and the like. Builders generally take a day off to make offerings for their work tools.

This special day for Balinese Hindu people is called “Tumpek Landep” day, devoted to Sang Hyang Pasupati, Lord of heirlooms, weapons and metal tools for proper function and magical power. The celebration is held at every house compound and temple.

With these offerings, special prayers are said to pray to God so that these material things continue to be strong and bring good fortune to their owners.

Within the family temples where heirlooms such as krisses (wavy double-bladed daggers) and other weapons are kept, offerings are made to ensure the continued magical power of these implements.

The kris is considered a standard part of traditional Balinese dress. During a wedding ceremony the groom will wear one across his back if the family has one, and you can see them on most of the male characters in Balinese dances, operas and dramas.
Offerings are also given to any kind of vehicles after being cleaned. It would be a good opportunity for travelers to Bali to witness how thousands of cars, motorbikes and other metal items are fully decorated with the offerings and ornaments made from young coconut leaves.

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Today, in Bali we has a ceremony called Saraswati, the ceremony to celebrate the “Science Day“. In Hindu we believe the Lord Saraswati blessing us with the knowledge.

In Bali usually cerebrate in Schools, Office, and Temple with Balinese offerings and pray to Saraswati Goddess.

And a day after Saraswati Day, in Bali we celebrating “Banyu Pinaruh” Day.

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Hari Raya Saraswati “Perayaan Turunnya Ilmu Pengetahuan” Di Bali Hari Raya Saraswati ini sangatlah penting maknanya bagi para pelajar diseluruh Bali, karena mereka yakin dan percaya bahwa dihari Raya Saraswati ini adalah Hari Turunnya Ilmu Pengetahuan. Banten yang dihaturkan adalah Prasajuman yang ditaruh diatas buku-buku pelajaran dan dipersembahkan untuk Sang Hyang Aji Sarawati.

Make sure you are prepare your umbrella or raincoat.

Rotary Club Bali has a event called Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) Physically Challenge. This RYLA is New special program from Rotary Bali for Disable People. On this first event the participant only from Bali.

This event held at Outward Bound Indonesia at Payangan, Bali.

Rotary hope after this event, the participants can learn many things like. Leadership, Team Work, and the important thing they can have more self confident.

In Bali we have a New Moon ceremony. The Hindu people in Bali will come to the temple to have an ceremony and offer some offerings. Normally Hindu people in Bali, will come to “Pura Dalem” the temple where we Pray to Lord Shiva-Dhurga. We pray to wish this world Peaceful and Harmony.

If you like to come to the Ceremony, please wear the Balinese Dress.

1. Have deep faith.
2. Full and complete devotion to God (Bhakti).
3. Love without limits, in the way that a husband loves his wife, a wife loves her husband, or a mother loves her son.
4. Steady attachment to God ? don?t lose time unnecessarily.
5. Constant devotion to Guru. Keep in mind that the Guru is not a human being, although He has human form. He is God. If this is understood, you will be able to see God through the Guru.
6. Don?t be small-minded. Think, “I want to get the One and Only God. I must get Him, I must see Him.” Always keep those feeling with you.
7. Keep satsang, pursue the company of satsanghis (”follow” those who do satsang). Do dhyan (meditation), think about the Self, and know that Self. Then you can feel the presence of God.
8. Practice sankirtan ? the singing of devotional songs. Read holy books, scripture. If you cannot do it aloud, then do it silently. Those things help to bring God?s presence.
9. Glorify God and His persons, to bring strength to your mind, and to keep your thoughts from scattering (”keep your mind together”).
10. Don?t see the faults of others. If you see others? faults, you may become ensnared without your knowledge.
11. When dong meditation, repeat the mantra given by Guru, and think about Guru?s form.
12. Once a week, get together with Gurubais and devotees and do kirtan, talk about God, and do meditation.
13. If you do not love your parents, then you cannot love God.
14. Flowers, bel leaves, fruit, incense, japa ? those are traditional items for worship, but in addition to these external things, you must establish God in your heart.
15. Leave your pride and serve the poor, the helpless, the suffering, and feel that they are all God.
16. Take care of your family responsibilities, but whatever you do, keep God in your mind and believe that this universe is His.
17. If you have spiritual feelings, experiences, or perceptions, do not speak of it to anyone except Guru.
18. The way to surrender and take shelter in the Guru is by surrendering the mind, intelligence, and pride to Him. Then the devotee can get relief from sorrow. But you have to keep trying, and have patience and perseverance.
19. Every night, right before you lie down, evaluate your actions ? what you have done, good or bad, during the course of the day.
20. Cry to the Divine Mother (Mahamaya), and pray for forgiveness of the sins and ignorance of your mind.
21. Remember that with love, anything can be achieved.
22. Remember that God alone is real, everything else is unreal.
23. Do not overeat, and eat a balanced diet. You decide what you will eat. But foods that are too hot, bitter, spicy, cold, or stale, do not touch.
24. On Ekadasi (eleventh day of the full moon, and eleventh day of the new moon), take less food and don?t work so hard.
25. You can do meditation in your mind at all times, but the best times are the two junctures: dawn and dusk.
26. If you do meditation and prayer with sincerity of heart, then you will be able to keep your mind from falling into evil or filth.
27. When doing meditation, it is best to breathe slowly and deeply. You can repeat prayers as often as you breathe in and out.
28. You can leave everything for God, but you cannot leave Him for anything.
29. Whether a householder or a sadhu, you should strive to live a celibate life. If you don?t live a celibate life, then your shakti and mental happiness will wane. Without celibacy, spiritual perceptions will not come.
30. If you always think about the moment of death, then you will develop an indifference to the sensual, worldly life.
31. Too many years slip away before you realize the nature of desire, that it is an illusion. But if you get Guru?s grace, you can let go of desire.
32. The shape and form conceal the formless. To understand and to get the formless, you need to recognize and focus your mind on the Divine form.
33. Even to pretend to be devoted is good, but it doesn?t mean that through this pretension, you should bring others to ruin. After a length of time, feigning devotion may make you devout.
34. Human beings are above all other living creatures. Because they are above all others, only human beings can perceive God.
35. Before you undertake any work, you should weigh it in terms of karma ? good or bad.
36. If you cannot obey rules, then you cannot rise above rules.
37. Nervous debility is a physical disorder. The proper medicine for this condition is provided by retention of mental coolness, keeping company of good people, by the study of the lives and activities of great men, and by renunciation of the company of evil and feeble souls.
38. Never place considerations of the body above the health of the mind.
39. Other than your own wife, think of every woman as your mother.
40. When you worship, begin with meditation, which will lead to Bhava (ecstatic love). Then, after Bhav, MahaBhav. In the state of MahaBhav, there is nothing else.
41. KulaKundalini Shakti (the active power of the universe) is sleeping within you. That is why you need to practice devotion, to awaken this force within you.
42. Who is a Hindu? (”Hindu ke?”). A Hindu is that person who does not have any hatred for others, and can love all beings deeply.

Answers, Through Discourses with Devotees, from the Divine Gurudev

1. Devotee: Who is God?

Guru: “I am the bull, I am the butcher, I am the one who eats the bull.” God is love.

2. Devotee: Who is the greater of the two: mother or father?

Guru: Mother gives us birth. After we take birth, we see our mother first. Mother raises us with love and care. Mother helps us to know the father, and also other members of the family. In childhood, we know that mother is the closest to us in our lives. Exactly in this way, it is our duty to worship the Universal Mother. Without any hesitation, you surrender to your Mother. Then that Universal Mother will reveal to us the Universal Father. Now, you judge who is greater.

3. Devotee: My only wish is that you grant me initiation.

Guru: You begin by repeating 1, 5, 00, 1. On this number, you do japa. One means God, Ishwar. Five, the five elements (earth, fire, water, air, ether). Zero, Zero, the two nostrils. These two nostrils ? if we can stop our breath with the aide of yoga, we can go back to the original “One” from which we came. When we come to that One, it is such a sublime feeling that it cannot be expressed in words.

4. Devotee: If you would grant me initiation as your chela (son), I would consider my birth as a human being to be successful.

Guru: That which did not exist, exists, then will no longer exist (”Cheelo na, ache, tagbe na”). Always ponder and chant these three things.

5. Devotee: Thakur, I cannot understand these words.

Guru: Don?t worry, you will be able to understand it at the right time.

6. Devotee: Can I pray to God for worldly wealth?

Guru: Yes, if you use that wealth for a noble cause. Nothing pi, single mind one! (”I haven?t a pice or a penny, my mind has a single focus on the One!”)

7. Devotee: All day and night, I am so busy with my own duties that I have no time to chant or pray.

Guru: We get time to do everything, but we don?t get time to worship God. In that situation, if you have no time at all, then do it when you are in the bathroom.

8. Devotee: Baba, I have come to know that there will be a water well (tube well) at the ashram. If you give me permission, I want to give money towards this.

Guru: Many others want to give money for the well, just like you do. But if I take money from only one person, then that person will be proud. So I will accept money out of charitable funds put together from a large number of people. God gives when you ask, and gives even when you don?t ask. If it is necessary, He will bring it to the person, even carrying it on His head.

9. Guru [to an American devotee]: You bear good signs. Do you practice celibacy?

American Devotee: I don?t have a girlfriend.

10. Guru: Whether or not you have a girlfriend is not what I want to know. Do you observe brahmacharya (celibacy)?

American Devotee: No. What sort of rules should I follow?

Guru: Not that many. Trust in God and practice celibacy with respect. If you respect this celibacy, Ma Ananda Mayi (the Mother Who Grants Spiritual Bliss) will give you what you need. Purity is the inner meaning of Dharma. Until you practice celibacy, you cannot get purity in your mind. Being virtuous towards your fellow man, helping one another ? if you do those things, joy will accompany you wherever you are. If you don?t observe celibacy with respect, then what I said before about purity will not make any sense.

11. Devotee: Why am I unable to have complete faith in You?

Guru: It is very difficult to place complete faith in the Spiritual Preceptor. A Spiritual Preceptor has in common with others His food and sleeping habits. A disciple should be simple-hearted and pure in mind to understand his Preceptor even marginally or fractionally. To have complete faith in the Preceptor is tantamount to seeing the Preceptor revealing God to the disciple.

Guru?s Grace is the Main Thing

[this is how the chapter ends.]

Hari Banyu Pinaruh

Dihari yang suci dan bersih ini Umat Hindu melakukan upacara Pengelukatan diri / Melebur. Tujuannya adalah untuk menyucikan diri dari segala macam perbutan buruk yang pernah kita perbuat. Banten yang dihaturkan yaitu Prassantun yang dipersembahkan di tempat kita melakukan pengelukatan / Pengeleburan. Contohnya : Di Griya ataupun Di Tirta Empul. Biasana dihari Banyu Pinaruh ini Umat Hindu membuat nasi Bira yang akan dihaturkan di merajan masing – masing

 9 November 2007

Dihari yang baik ini Umat Hindu menghaturkan Banten Ajuman dan Canang Sari di Merajan masing-masing. Dihari tilem ini jaga baik melakukan Meditasi ( mendekatkan diri pada Tuhan ). Dihari tilem bulan pun akan terlihat redup diatas sana.

Dihari kajeng kliwon ini umat hindu membuat sesajen: Ajuman, Dampulan, dan Segehan yang akan dipersembahkan di merajan masing-masing, Banten Ajuman dihaturkan disanggah Surya, Betarayang Guru dan di Dewayang. Sedangkan banten Dampulan dihaturkan dipelinggih Taksu, Ratu Ngurah dan di Penuun karang, yang terakhir adalah Segehan, segehan ini dihaturkan untuk Para Bhuta Kala agar rumah kita terhindar dari gangguan para Bhuta Kala maka dari itu kita sangat perlu sekali menghaturkan banten segehan pada saat hari Kajeng Kliwon

In Bali has a ceremony to celebrate and an rituals for money.

it can be shown in every part of Bali. They will come to the “Melanting” temple and pray to “Rambut Sedhana” God. We offer an “Pras Santun” offerings. Normally this day Hindu people in Bali can not paying Debt. Hindu people believe this from many years ago..

Here is some countries that he tell me.

Japan => Like an Erotic Art, but not an Pornographic

Europe => Like something like Technology and Adventure

And also he tell every age of has different Taste of Art. Now, we just see what people need and what they like.

It Just set up on 15 October 2007

Be There… and Enjoy the Wireless Internet Connection

Balinese Drama Dance

Balinese Drama Dance at Padangtegal - Ubud temple. This dance is perform to entertain the Prayer at the temple.

15 human desires dan values:

   1. Curiosity – keinginan untuk belajar

   2. Food – keinginan untuk makan

   3. Honor (morality) – keinginan bertingkah laku sesuai dengan peraturan

   4. Rejection – ketakutan disingkirkan secara sosial atau dikucilkan, tidak diterima                 dalam satu kelompok

   5. Sex – keinginan untuk berhubungan seksual dan berfantasi seksual

   6. Physical exercise – keinginan untuk melakukan aktivitas fisik

   7. Order – keinginan banyak berorganisasi dalam kehidupan sehari-hari

   8. Independence – keinginan untuk membuat keputusan sendiri

   9. Vengeance – keinginan membalas dendam ketika disakiti hatinya

  10. Social contact – keinginan berada dalam satu kelompok dengan yang lainnya

  11. Family – keinginan menghabiskan waktu bersama keluarganya sendiri

  12. Social prestige – keinginan mendapatkan gengsi dan perhatian

  13. Aversive sensations – tidak ingin merasa sakit dan gelisah

  14. Citizenship – keinginan menjadi pelayan publik dan mewujudkan keadilan sosial

  15. Power – keinginan mempengaruhi orang lain.