Symbolic meaning behind "Sesaji" (Sedekahan and Selamatan) Javanese Ritual

For the Java Muslim community, ritualistic as a form of devotion and sincerity of the worship of God, partly realized in the form of ritual symbols that contain profound meaning. Ritual symbols or the embodiment of an expression and comprehension will be elegant timepiece ' reality ' so that it becomes unattainable ' very close '. With the symbols of these rituals, feels that God is always present and always involved, ' fused ' in itself, a symbol of the ritual are understood as a manifestation of intention that man is himself the tajalli, or also as an inseparable part of the Lord.

The ritual symbols of which are ubarampe (a gift in the form of food), which was presented in (wilujengan) celebrate the rituals, texts and so on. It is the actualization of thoughts, desires, and feelings of the perpetrator to be draw closer to God. An attempt to approach myself through the ritual of sedekahan, the kenduri, celebrates the joy and the like, is in fact a form of cultural accumulation that is abstract. It is sometimes also referred to as the negotiation efforts so that all things spiritual, which is believed to be above the ghaib humans won't touch it negatively.

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