PRESERVE THE PLANTS WITH TUMPEK BUBUH

Name   : Ni Made Mega Pratiwi

No       : 28

Class    : XII IPA 3

PRESERVE THE PLANTS WITH TUMPEK BUBUH

Once upon a time in the forest there are so many trees, but now we have cut down the trees. Then when the rainy season,  there were not much trees to absorp the water. And, it will be some disaster such as : flooding, landslides, and of course the global warming. So, what to do with TumpekBubuh? Do you know when we celebrateit?

At each SaniscaraKeliwonWariga, Hindus always deliver to the offerings presented to SanghyangSangkara as the God of the plants. By Hindus TumpekBubuh as an expression of love and affection for plants. In Hinduism there is a doctrine called the Tri Hita Karana. There are some part of Tri Hita Karana such as  the human relationship with God, the relationship between human being and man's relationship with its environment. In practice the relationship with the environment, Hindus people worshipThe Lord Sangkara as the God of plants.

If we observe from the education side of TumpekBubuh, that is a medium of learning for Hindus to learn mutual respect and love each other. In this case the plant has been widely praised as a boon to people sincerely provide the opportunity for men to pluck the leaves, fruit, stem, flower etc. And we should remember that the plants are able to feed and provide animals and human’s daily needs like vegetables, fruits, timber, shelter and so on.

We’ve realized, the plant will be very beneficial if the human maintain and preserve itself. But if people only ask for and destroy the plants, he will turned into a source of wickedness or the Hindus called bhutakala that will harm humans with disasters such as floods, landslides, earthquakes,

hurricanes and others. It happened because of human activity tothe plants that never care about our environment, but humans only ask and destructive of nature environment as cutting down forests without planting again, so the mountains became bare and cause flooding.

From the ancestor,we got a cultural heritage to preserve the environment as an example of each the existing wood in Bali mostly filled a cloth with black and white pattern or we ussually called it saputpoleng.It sacred by Hindus to be a place of worship a spiritual energy in it.But if we observe from the science side of the large trees that can serve the circulation of water in which sea water is heated by the sun will evaporate, and then from the steam will turn into a dew, dew-moist area will be rain, rain water retained by the roots of tree then flowed slowly through the river to the sea as the source again.

So, through theTumpekBubuhwe will begin to learn about lovethe trees, nurture the plants with forestation or reforestation. And it is guidance for the human mind to preserve the environment by mutual respect, mutual love, mutual care among all of God's creature.