Mystery of Tirakat

Topo Broto

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 - Fundamentally performing Tirakat/fast must begin with sacred showers and the intent to draw close to the Lord.

According to the literature of Java, many years of fasting were viewed as sacred. In addition to fasting, other thievery activities are meditation and Semedi or called Topo Broto. To hold back passion for success.

Examples of fasting and tirakat on the island of Java include the following:

 1.  Pati Geni that means no going out of the room, no sleeping, and no eating and drinking all night long.

 2.  Fast Monday Thursday

 3.  Muteh from one day to 40 days, eating only white rice and drinking a little water at sunset.

 4.  Ngeruh is only eat vegetables and fruit could be forbidden by the living.

 5.  Ngebleng is no out of the room one day and night, no lights, only urinating, no sleeping, no eating, no drinking

 6.  Nglowong is only a certain food by a certain time, sleep only 3 hours

 7.  Ngrowot can only eat one kind of fruit at a maximum of three from shubuj to maghrib.

 8.  Nganyep / Ngasrep, eat anything but what doesn't taste and needs to be cooled off cold.

 9.  Ngidang is only allowed to drink water and leaves. Nothing else is allowed.

 10. Ngepel only eats rice a day one head to three balls a day.

 11.  Wungon can't eat and drink and not sleep for 24 hours

12.  Ngalong, fast grunts while hanging from a tree with feet above the head below.

 13.  Topo jejeg is not to sit for 12 hours

 14.  Lelono made a midnight trip between 12 and 3 to be aware of the mistakes she had committed all along.

 15.  Kungkum is a cross fast in a river that meets two streams from 12 p.m. to 3 or 4 a.m.

 16.  Topo Pendem / Nluwang is that fasting is being buried alive only gives way to breath, usually for 3 days or 7 days, the risk of life and the result is being able to remove the body from sight or see through the naked eye of ghoib beings.

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