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Story of Bali, Indonesia abrasive chemicals and whirring machines, soiled linen is handwashed daily in water from the holy spring to an accompaniment of gosip and gigles. In bygone years it was spread along the grassy river bank to dry. Came an excessively wet season and the management wondered whether they could make a slight departure from custom and erect a clothesline. The staff were delighted.
Gossip and giggles echoed downstream as altogether too many willing hands
strung a sturdy line' between two teak trees in front of the holy spring.
In no time the hotel's first-ever line of washing was drying briskly in
the breeze..' The staff smiled happily and thought of the carefree days
ahead now the problem of wet washing was solved. ' For a long time the holy man stood holding the broken ends of wire in his hands. At last, he crossed the river and sat beneath the'. sacred banyan tree, looking back towards the holy spring and the damaged line. Suddenly, he arose, made a couple of brief measurements, and returned to the anxiously waiting group. "All is well, my friends," he told them with a smile. "Just' lower your line a bit and you will have trouble-free drying. At present your clothesline is strung right across the flight path of the' gods as they go from the banyan tree to the holy spring to bathe' each night. They keep bumping into it and breaking it down." Gladly, the hotel did as the priest advised, to the accompaniment of redoubled giggles and gossip, and so any day you go down the river bank, you can see a colourful line 'of washing floating gently in the breeze. To impede the path of progress is sometimes a wise move. To impede the path of the gods is folly indeed.
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we must point out a very important distinction which the Balinese make between
two clearly separate groups of ancestors. The first of these groups consists
of the dead who are riot yet completely purified. This group is in turn subdivided
in pirata, those riot yet cremated, and pitara, those already cremated. The
former are still completely impure; the latter have been purified, but are still
considered as distinct, individual souls. The second group consists of the completely
purified ancestors who are considered as divine. Everything Bali Indonesia |
