Balinese believe that good and evil, right and left, gods and demons are banded into two opposing faction, constantly at war but depend on each other as a unity. To counterbalance the healthy influence of the gods who produce cleanliness, luck and fertility, there are evil spirits responsible for all illness and misfortune. If there is no demon, the god will also ceased to exist; there is nothing that can be called ‘good’ if there is no ‘evil’. This concept of duality in unity (rwa bhineda) is applied in almost every part of Balinese daily life, man and woman, day and night, happy and sad, etc.

Balinese believe that their action will be reciprocated, an eye for an eye. When a Balinese help someone he believes that someday someone will help him. Another example is the cremation ceremony. There is a compulsion to help other in the time of death since some day our turn and of that our family members will come and we want other to help us in a same compulsion. A breech in this reciprocated cycle is heavily punished by the society. The worst punishment for this breech is expelled from society, for Balinese this punishment is a living hell, worst than dead.

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For Balinese disaster, unfortunate event, accident, bad luck etc are part of life. The concept of Rwa Bhineda (two different aspect of life -good and bad, day and night- but unite as one entity) runs in the blood of every Balinese. In Balinese view, joy and grief cannot be separated, when you share a joyful moment, you cannot avoid the sad one. An old Balinese saying said, ‘Fortune cannot be chased and bad luck cannot be avoided’. The occurrence of joy and grief in this life is like a never-ending circle, a joy will surely followed by a grief, and the grief is soon replaced by another joy, this circle will repeat until the end of life. But for Balinese the end of a life is a start of another life and this circle of joy and grief will start and keep on moving.

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