'Melasti', When God Take A Bath

by Sutrisna Adi 8:37 PM 0 comments


I don't mean to insult God, God is outside my control. He/She controls me. Take a bath doesn't mean take a shower like human beings, its just our understanding not in the God understanding. Well, we didn't brought God actually, its just a symbol of God. We have several holly statue or 'pratima' in our temple. On a holly day like this, we bring thoose statues to the ocean. Ocean is a holly place before the horizon. This concept was came from "Tirta Kamandalu story of Hinduism epic". Its a long story why we choose ocean as a holly place.

While God "take a bath", we pray. We pray for our ceremony, we pray for universe harmony. Then after that we hope the universe got their holly spirit by "taking a bath", a spiritual bath to get our "bhuana agung" and "bhuana alit" become holly and pure.

This picture taken Dec 31 2008 (the last day of 2008) in Parangkusumo, Jogja. Proceding "Ngenteg Linggih Pura Eka Dharma Kasihan Bantul Yogyakarta."

About author: Sutrisna Adi

Hi.. i'm taking some of my time to take photographs from my phone. It's not a real mobile phone photography. Indeed i hope it so, at first. But, till then its just another place to post something. Hope you readers, like it. well.. its OK if you not..

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