Saraswati day is celebrated every 210 day, exactly on Saniscara ( Saturday ) Umanis Wuku Watugunung based on Balinese Calendar System. On Saraswati Day Offering are placed on books as a symbol of knowledge. Balinese Hindus belief that knowledge is a source to achieve the purpose of life as a human being. Saraswati Day is celebrated to honor God as source of the knowledge which is manifested as Dewi Saraswati ( Goddess Saraswati ).
Dewi Saraswati is depicted as a beautiful girl with four hands holding a, bead chain, two-stringed musical instrument ( Rebab ), palm leaf manuscript (a Balinese traditional book which is the source of Knowledge). Dewi Saraswati is depicted riding on a white swan among water lilies. The Beautiful Dewi Saraswati is a symbol that the knowledge is attractive, The swans symbolised prudence, and the water lilies (Lotus) are symbols of holiness. The water lilies ( Lotus ) flower is the purified for Balinese. The musical instrument symbolized that the knowledge is entertaining, The manuscript is symbol where the place of knowledge, then The chain is a symbol that knowledge is never finish to learn has an everlasting life cycle, there is no beginning and no ending to learn.
Balinese belief that In Saraswati Day we are not permitted to read or write the book, because allof that are offered
Quoted from : http://www.nakbali.com/saraswati-day/
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