Adigang Adigung Adiguna

Nation of Indonesia , including Javanese , is known to have delicate sensibilities , as well as a high tolerance . That's why they do not like arrogant people . Namely , the proud, arrogant , haughty , arrogant , self-respect and tend to underestimate excess ( degrading ) the other person . In Java , arrogant considered a bad trait ( not commendable ) , and should be avoided because it will be a serious disruption to the community and the environment

In the view of the Java community , the proud have properties as unen unen - ( proverb ) , which reads : ' adigang adigung Adiguna ' . That is, the properties boast in strength , power , and skill possessed . Adigang , is a picture of a deer character who boasts tremendous power flight . Adigung is the arrogance of the nobility , descent , nobility , rank , position , or power possessed . Elephant is like a big and barely challenged by the other animals . Adiguna while boasting cleverness ( ingenuity ) like a snake that has the character of a lethal poison bite .

This proverb warns that excess often makes a person arrogant , forgetting self , so bad for the people concerned and others . Examples deer . No matter how fast his run too often overtaken by a lion or tiger , and if it is so his fate will be the only meal of the forest king . In the children's story is told also how big elephant was defeated by ants bite your foot to slip in the gap , or when the legs of the elephant pierced by a thorn . Meanwhile, the much-feared killer snake that was going to suffocate , broken bones , if the thug branches ( branches ) ori bamboo ( Bambusa arundinaceae ) .

Thus , the advantages of a person is something that is " useful " and " dangerous " . Useful if harnessed for the good , treacherous if only used for personal satisfaction and encouragement sheer lust . For example , sharp objects such as knives , sickles, machetes , and so forth . A sharp knife so it should be easy for slicing meat or vegetables when cooking . However , if used carelessly can hurt your fingers . Moreover , because of the sharp , strong , and pointy , a kitchen knife can also be misused to kill people .

As usual strategy in Javanese culture , generally every maxim does not stand alone and is often associated with other proverbs . For example , adigang - adigung - Adiguna had a close correlation with the vanity in the context of advising " wrote dumeh " . Meaning : do not be pretentious or just because .

Free translation is not like to show off and use what they have to hit , belittle , or insult others . For example : aja dumeh sugih ( not just because he is rich ) , and used his fortune to act arbitrarily . Why is that , because the property was not sustainable and can disappear at any time ( no longer owned ) . Aja dumeh kuwasa ( not just because he is in power when an officer / leader ) then do as they wish themselves . Why is that , because if people do not like again led in question can be removed from his office .

In Java, there is a belief that all humans have just deposited God . Thus ownership and even then is mortal . Without Countenance ( permission ) of God , might not have them concerned . In addition, the wealth of one's own reality also obtained the services ( delivery ) of others. For example , where traders may profit and abundant wealth without doing transactions with the public ? Based on the above opinion , this proverb advises anyone snobs do not have a nature .

Just because the rich refuse menyedekahkan part of his property to the poor . So just because the leader does not want to work together with neighbors . According to Javanese tradition , such an attitude is very disgraceful and hurtful to others. Thus , by combining the above two proverbs possible payload messages delivered dimudah will be parsed , in addition to the stronger power breakdown also entered the consciousness of thought , feeling , and heartstrings .

For example , the advice would be: " Aja dumeh SEKTI mandraguna pour duwe rich character Adiguna ula . Ora ketang wisane bath , nanging kesabet branches will pring ori wae bathang selawase dadi . " ( Free translation : " Just because magic then like a snake character . Though usually lethal , but hit just gebuk bamboo branches ori carcass will be forever . " ) .

Arrogant people can be analogized as a deer crossed in front of a crowd of a lion or tiger in the jungle , an elephant who accidentally trample anthill prickly shrub or bush , a snake that has been intentionally or not go to the home page of people in the township . Maybe once or twice survived . However , for all time so that pride will definitely be a stumbling block that makes him fell forward and kissed the earth can not bounce back ?