The ritual of Tumpek Uduh or Tumpek Bubuh performed by the Balinese bring human beings from all over the world to preserve the environment well so that humans do not lose their food, clothing and housing resources that constitute their primary needs. If you coincidentally spend a holiday in Bali you will see Balinese people present offerings on the trees, ritual procession in the midst of vast estate and various socio-religious activities from the early morning to late night. The function and meaning of this Tumpek Bubuh is an awareness milestone to sustain the environmental preservation for the sake of survival of all living creatures.
For Balinese people sustaining the environmental preservation comprises divine duty in implementing the Hindu teaching. Hence, human and living environment are inseparable and always in interdependency.
In the concept of Tat Tvam Asi (That art thou) human is an element of this living environment, to make the Balinese aware sustaining the harmonious relation to its environment. In the kekawin (long poem) of Nitisastra, the interdependency relationship of human and living environment just likes a tiger in the woods. The tiger sincerely guards the woods again wicked people, and on the contrary, the dense woods are glad to protect the habitat of tiger and provide it with the abundant food.
In endeavor to preserve the environment, apart from doing real action in the field they also perform the ritual procession called Tumpek Bubuh or Tumpek Pengarah, Tumpek Pengatag, Tumpek Wariga. This rite is performed in the morning, when the sun rises on the eastern horizon the Balinese rush to bring the offering to their estates behind their home or the places that is full of trees. In the midst of vast estate area, the offerings put on asagan (bamboo altar).
Such was Hindu devotes in Bali carrying out the rites of Tumpek Uduh or Tumpek Bubuh that fall on Saturday Kliwon Wariga, once in six months (210 days). This year falls on Saturday (19/9, 2009)
Ingredients of offerings presented on that day predominated by the form to porridge. But if devotees has vast estate along with productive plats, like coconut, coffee, clove, and so on, the offering is usually completed with roasted sucking pig.
Tumpek Bubuh is constitutes the preliminary celebration for the preparation of welcoming for the Galungan holiday a festival for the universe (commemorative day for the earth). In the Balinese calendar system, the range of Tumpek Bubuh with Galungan counts 35 days or a month in the system. Their for Tumpek Bubuh apart from conveying thanksgiving to the Almighty God as the supreme authority of sarwa tumbuh (useful plats for human life) also signifies the expectation that God in His manifestation as the Lord Sangkara at all time extends boon for fertility, so all plants grow and bear fruit flourishingly as the prayer recited on presenting the offerings.
If you travel to Bali you would better go to the village corner to see the performance of Tumpek Bubuh rites. The sacredness vibration of this rite will help you to attain an awareness to behave wisely in preserving the environment. When you succeed in sustaining yours well, actually you have made a saving for your retirement age that is immensely beneficial for your future generations. (BTN/doc)
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