RITUAL

Balinese people believe that all their daily life active is connecting with the God, and they are separate this explanation of their “yadnya” to the Almighty God as a greet full, Balinese Hinduism is based on the concept of Tri Hita Karana, the belief that there should be a balanced relationship between man and God, man and all other people, and the last one is man and nature. Balinese people also believe when they do some rituals, they should find a right day which is based on the Balinese calendar. They will choose the right day to perform a ritual or when they make some product.

Like making a gamelan is done on certain days, so the process to make it running smoothly. The best day to make a gamelan is on the Buda kembang day, it is Wednesday to coincide with full moon day. In the production of gambelan, there are no restriction that applied, then the craftsman just need to follow the procedure to make gambelan.

In the production of Gamelan, the craftsmen held a few rituals, such as:

1.                  Before making a Gamelan, the craftsmen need to choose a “duwasa” or the right day based on the Balinese calendar to start working on Gamelan.

2.         After the Gamelan finish, the craftsmen will held a ceremony as our gratitude for smooth running during the production process. So the craftsmen make some offering, such as: Give pejati as offering and the big ceremony the craftsmen will conduct is Melaspas (Purification) ritual as offering.

  

             Pejati

Pejati is a symbolic of offering that the craftsmen give to God, for devotion and our gratitude.

                  Melaspas (purification)

Melaspas is one of Balinese traditional ceremonial, where the purpose is to clean the negative element from the new site of building, land, or some object. There are great philosophies contained deep inside the melaspas. The melaspas which came from word “mala” which means bad or negative elements and “pas” means cleaned or to make it pure . Melaspas also has purpose to give the great spirit of soul to the building, land and object like Gamelan.

Ritual or ceremonies are usually held on a particular day associated with a special day to Gamelan , there are:

1.                  Tumpek Klurut (The day of sound existence)

Tumpek Klurut is yadnya (sacrifice) ceremonies which is celebrate every Saturday kliwon. (Kliwon, come every five days, which is the day when Lord of Siwa come to the world as a form of consideration for the balance of nature. ). Served as prostration of gratitude to Ida Sang HyangWidiWasa (God) in its manifestation as a God of Iswara to create a sacred sound or percussion in beauty and art, like Gamelan.

2.                  Tumpek Landep (The day for purification metal tools)

Tumpek Landep is a ritual ceremony for sharpening metallic objects, hearts, and minds. The ceremony held on tumpeklandep day are uniquely held to bless metal objects. The rituals aim to honor Sang hyang Pasupati, the lord of pusaka (Heirloom), for creating of steel goods.

Usually Balinese peopleperform a Yadnya (sacrifice) to the God as a greet full for everything that is given, as well as an expression of our gratitude. Such as the production of gambelan, the craftsman need to do a ritual for it. Either before or after the process of  producing  gambelan. By perform Yadnya (sacrifice) to God, they believe the process of making  a gambelan will be smooth, efficacy, and safety for them.