The spiritual meaning of the keris pusaka. Kejawen.

The modern keris contains all the symbols of the Indonesian Shiva-Buddha Dharma religion, a syncretic Hindu-Buddhist teaching. A tantric religion, consisting of many ceremonies and symbols, a combination that originated in Indonesia, arose in the 13th century and reached its peak in the 14th century.
This combination of Shaivism and Buddhism is unique in the world and only occurred in Indonesia and partly in Cambodia. The current motto of Indonesia "Bhinneka Tunggal Ika", written by Empu Tantular with the translation: "(although) divided into pieces, yet one" refers to the combination of tantric Hinduism and Buddhism at that time. A tantric direction also called the Indonesian Shiva Bhairavaism.
The fist settlers from south India came to west Java in the 4th century. It was king Jayasingswarman from Salankayana India who's son maried a prinses from Banten
Boeddhism is brought to Indonesia around the 7th century.
The oldest esoteric Buddhist literature in Old Javanese is the Sang Hyan Kamahayanikan, describing teachings coming from Dignāga . The San Hyaṇ Kamahāyānikan was crucial to its development Indonesian esoteric Buddhism.
The oldest inscription of the syncretic fusion between Hinduism and Boeddhism are the inscrition of Kelurak, 906 ad.
During the last decades of the Central Javanese period (the early 10th century), Tantrism gained a strong foothold in both Buddhist and Hindu religious practices. This is called Indonesian esoteric Buddhism, the Vajrayana, Mantrayana or Tantrayana, a movement that arose along the maritime trade routes and port cities of Java, Sumatra and Malaysia.
The esoteric Buddhist tradition uses mantras, visualizations and deities, just like the Hindu tradition.
Theravada Buddhism rejects the universal devotional offering and use of gods.
But Vajrayana Buddhism, with its mantras, gods, and yoga teachings, is somehow as close to Shaivite Hinduism as it is to Theravada Buddhism.
The keris is a tantric multi symbol and above all an object of help here on earth and an object of meditation to get in touch with the ancestors and the spirit world. The symbolism indicates that it is connected to tantric Shivaism.
The Tantric teaching is a ritual teaching. It emphasizes magical formulas, ritual practices through meditation on images of gods, such as Batara Guru, Raksasa, Ravana, Durga and Ganesha, ritual mantras and symbols to unite with the highest male and female principles (the Samkhya theory of dualism) shakti, and thereby extinguishing the duality of the world to achieve moksha (liberation).
You will also see ritual Buddha kerisses from the 10th century, that most likely had a ritual function.
Even Tibetan monks came to Indonesia to improve their already well-known tantrism. However, it was mainly in the 13th century that a special kind of Tantrism emerged, Siva Bhairavaism. Now the terrible aspect of Shiva was worshiped through rituals and meditations in cemeteries and caves, sacrifices of flowers, animals and humans, ritual sexual intercourse etc. as depicted in the many centuries old Indonesian temples.
In this way they tried to unite with Shiva Bhairava and thereby get his protection to overcome demons and enemies and thus get spiritual help in earthly existence.
This shift is clearly visible in East Javanese art, where demonic aspects emerged in both visual arts and literature. This helps explain why the keris often have demonic images and why the blade of a kris is seen as a lingam and a Naga, the sacred mountain Meru/Semeru which are all central symbols of Shivaist Tantrism.
The symbolism on modern keris, such as the telale gajah, the ganja, the pesi, the sogokan, etc. therefore indicates that the keris must have originated in this period. Generally, the Naga does not appear in Indonesian art before the East Javanese period and because the Naga is such a central symbol of the keris.
Buddhism in Indonesia declined with the fall of Majapahit due to the civil wars. By this time, Javanese Buddhists had begun to integrate into Kejawen, the original Javanese ascetic religion. Hinduism survived in East Java, Bali and Lombok because the kingdom of Mataram was unable to conquer these areas.
The Wali Songo merged these beliefs and thus the modern Kejawen emerged after the Majapahit period. It ensures that the primitive belief in spirits, demons and ancestors, the old Javanese animistic/shamanic belief, tantric Shivaïst mysticism, the esotheric Buddhism, Shivaism and Sufi Islam can unite as one, through the keris as a spiritual multi symbol.
At the same time, the keris is especially connected with Shiva Bhairava, because the very central symbols such as the Naga, the Raksāsa, the head of the Bonaspati, the sacred mountain Meru, the Lingam-Yonin and Ganesha are all symbols that have him as a common denominator. This is the basis from which all other current spiritual directions arose, so a kind of umbrella under which all current kejawen directions fall.

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