Mulyono, Agus Nuryatin, Teguh Supriyanto, Nas Haryati Setyaningsih
Love, destiny, origin, and purpose in Javanese mysticism or Javanese spiritual conceptions has become an important discourse. In fact, this has been so in the puppet world. Pakem Ramayana, particularly the story of Sinta Obong has inspired many Indonesian writers to be creative. By now, the study of work inspired by Sinta Obong have been interpreted using deconstruction, and feminism studies have examined even the character values of heroic characters. However, no one has used a comparative literary approach that digs into the spiritual reality and the main point of spirituality in the text. This study uses a comparative literary approach with the help of the Gadamer’s dialectic Hermeneutics theory to reveal the spiritual reality of the text of "Sinta Obong" by Ki Slamet Soetarsa and the Poem "Sita Sihir" by Sapardi Djoko Damono (SDD). In this study, a careful reading and content analysis was carried out on the two works to uncover the meaning of the dialectical spirituality of love, destiny, origin, and purpose. It concludes that "Sinta Obong" by Ki Slamett Soetarsa, and his spiritual reality is the enforcement of self-esteem supported by consciousness as a political leader of power and social leadership. The "Sita Sihir" by SDD, establishes individual leadership to free himself from the world, and from the shackles of four passions: alamah, sufiyah, amarah, and muthmainah. It is believed that spirit of self is what initiates liberation. Self which reaches the top of surrender, is sincerity and self-plenary is what serves Sangkan Paraning Dumadi. These findings provide enlightenment that the reflective dimension of understanding is very important so that it does not appear as a distortion to the content and spirit of the text. © (2023), All Rights Reserved.
Universitas Negeri Semarang, Department of Indonesian Language, Kampus Sekaran, FBS, Semarang, 50229, Indonesia
