Home of Peace 2

Following the famous movie shooting titled Eat, Pray, Love in Bali early 2010 starring Julia Roberts, many people around the world call Bali as the Island of Love. An island that is full of passion and aroma of Love. For ordinary ears, this is a common story. For those who receptive enough to cosmic symbols, such signs should be wisely observed.

By keep respecting others birth place, locations in which many revelations and prophets had ever born are in flame. Conflicts in Middle East such as Israel-Palestine are still far from final resolutions. India and Pakistan border clash with guns and artillery can be heard by many who live nearby frequently. Tibetan tantric land that has been the roof of the world since the beginning of time, through Chinas culture revolution, part of Tibets original culture had vanished.

In the other part of time, Bali also had experiencing terrifying moments in 1965. The two times terrorist bomb blast in Bali was even contemplated as moments of spreading peace. When Amrozy (one of the Bali bombing key actor) buried in east Java, many figures of various religious representatives in Bali came and joined the prayer for Amrozy. On the top of that, following such events, Bali has been awarded as the best tourist destination island in the world for multiple times by several global media.

Combined as one, there are series of cosmic signs that are wise enough for us to uncover. The good news is there is a chance that the Bali island aroma and passion of love spread around the world. Bad odor of hatred, anger, and war that shape our world received a neutralized power from the Bali island aroma and passion of love. It would be wonderful if Balinese welcoming the arrival of this light of love with practicing love and compassion on the daily basis. The bad news is without proper rectification and preparation on the needed sector, the passion and aroma of love will only invite unfavorable investors and travelers that will accelerating the collapse of the island.

Spiritual Home

Home is a place that has been the dream of many of us. Safety, comfort, serenity, and peacefulness are the feelings that present if we are already home. For this reason, many have found home in Bali. Home of love and peace to make it more specific.

Unfortunately, in a time that has been marked by too many cosmic disorders, only few of us already found home. As the evident, people are easily exhausted, tired, and offended by numerous problems. More than that, crime, divorce, fight, and war have been rising in recent time. These showed how people are already too far from home.

In Bali, nature has been giving many signs like the shortage of frangipani flower (Kamboja) , Balinese dogs that have been protecting the island for hundreds of years now become the source of rabies, and the weather becomes more and more uncertain. Humans behavior also change in this island, not only when it comes to power they are fighting, even when it come to religious rituals few have been unfriendly toward each other.

In total, there should be some kind of invitation for the Balinese to return back home. More specifically, Bali Island can be saved from the hasty influence of time. It would be lucky enough if it is possible to preserve the Bali island aroma and passion of love for a long time.

It is impossible to separate the hill from its green, it is impossible as well to separate the sky from its blue, similarly it is impossible to separate Bali Island from Parama Shanti (the ultimate peace). It has been taught from generation to generation that the summit of Balinese prayer is Parama Santhi. After coming out of Pura (temple), Balinese should say Santhi (peace) three times. To end a conversation, Balinese should say Santhi three times as well. Therefore whether it is within Balinese conscious mind or not, Balinese have been requesting peace, peace and peace for their island for many centuries.

Peace of mind, that is the spiritual home of the Balinese. As the physical home that invites longing when gone, which bring come comfort upon arrival, spiritual home also similar. Peace of mind, thats the place where Balinese can find tranquility.

Maybe because of reading the signs of time where Balinese will go too far from their spiritual home, thus in Pura Kehen (Kehen Temple) Bangli, the elders left old inscriptions which has been preserved there for hundreds of years that contain the invitation of coming home.

Home of Soul

Actually not only Balinese that has been exhausted by keep searching here and there but never find home. Many have faced similar exhaustion. Many Westerners are still hungry within their material wealth. Many Easterners are also thirsty in the calm water of elders wisdom.

In the genius words of Franz Kafka : “meaning of life is opened when we learn to stop”. For those who have been searching for a long time can smile shyly when reading to Kafka message. It turns out not only in Himalayan peak that insights can be found, within us, the peak of captivating insights is exist as well.

For many Balinese that have come into this understanding are aware why elders establish Pura jati (the true home) in the point where Batur mountain (Linggam or spirit of the masculine) kiss the lips of Batur lake (Yoni or the spirit of feminime). The message is simple, stop opposing the duality of good-bad, right-wrong, holy-dirty, rich-poor, and take a total rest on anything that is happening at the present, especially by implementing the lifes call with devotion minus complain. This is home of soul.

Unfortunately, it has been too long people are exhausted from oppossing the holy against the unholy, the right fight against the wrong. And whenever these fight and combat come to an end, we will arrive in the true home. This is the home of Parama Santhi. In this home, all life ingredients will be processed into love, devotion, peacefulness, and offering. As the result, Bali island aroma and passion of love will meet the passion and aroma of the Balinese. This can avoid the Balinese and Bali island from entering the ravine of downfall.

In line with the cosmic message that is told in the film titled Eat, Pray, Love where delicious foods are found in Italia, beautiful prayer is found in India, and captivating love can be found in Bali this is Bali that I love. Bali that emits the fragrance of love everywhere in the midst of a world that enveloped by anger and hatred. The difference with the teenagers love that full of desire for the loved to be this and that, this kind of love is the love that easily invites tears. Not the tears of sadness, but touched by the discovery how noble the Bali island is.