Tirta Empul Temple – Meaning of Each fountain?

Angie Ong
January 15, 2020
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Tirta Empul Temple Fountain meanings – functions of each fountains:

Tirta Empul Temple meaning of each fountain – The place where you do the showering ritual named Jaba Tengah, which consist of 3 pools.

Pool One (has 14 holy spring fountains, Pool TWO (has 2 holy spring fountains, and Pool THREE (has 6 holy spring fountains).

Jaba Tengah – Pool ONE, with 14 holy spring fountains (Tirta Pebersihan)

The main function for this “Tirta Pebersihan” is to relieve suffering from poverty and disease, eliminate enemies, and to seek fortune(money) and to clean the sins for crime you have did.

Tirta Empul Temple Fountain meanings, read the below for functions of each fountain,

1^st Fountain – Pancoran Tirta Bepergian Jauh

To give protection while you are traveling far from home especially when you are going abroad(outside of Bali)
To give protection/ peace/ calm when you are in disturbed / chaotic situation

2^nd Fountain – Pancoran Tirta Penyakit Kulit

To cure all skin diseases.

3^rd Fountain – Pancoran Tirta Ketenangan Jiwa

To cure psychiatric illnesses such as mental disorders and memory loss.
To give solutions to one’s life’s problems.

4^th Fountain – Pancoran Tirta Rematik

To cure rheumatic disorders, gout and muscle stiffness.
To reduce disorders due to allergic diseases.

5^th Fountain – Pancoran Tirta Gigi

To cure toothache.
To take out teeth.
To destroy black magic in yourself, your family or others.

6^th Fountain – Pancoran Tirta Sakit Tulang

To cure all bone diseases.
To Stimulate bone growth.
To treat bone growth disorders in children.

7^th Fountain – Pancoran Tirta Asmara

Increase feeling of love towards partners.
To increase love feeling for husband and wife
To get a perfect match.
Strengthen the love relationships.
To give harmony in the family.

8^th Fountain – Pancoran Tirta Ketenangan Emosi

To relieve someone’s anger or negative emotions
To relieve negative emotions or anger from a group of people such as during a demonstration or riot.

9^th Fountain – Pancoran Penyakit Saluran Nafas

Good for coughs, colds, tonsils, asthma.

10^th Fountain – Pancoran Tirta Rambut

Good for hair loss, nourish hair and eliminate itching on the head

11^th Fountain – Pancoran Tirta Pengentas

the dead body are still there

12^th Fountain – Pancoran Tirta Pengentas II

The dead body are gone

13^th Fountain – Pancoran Tirta Merta

Good for raising a good fortune, fertility of farmland, career, charisma, and to purify your office.

14^th Fountain – Pancoran Tirta Sudamala

Good for purifying the body / spirit, strengthen, expedite the blood vessel system, autism, bed-wetting, and improve the spiritual.

Jaba Tengah – Pool TWO, with 2 holy spring fountains (Tirta Pelebur Kutukan dan Sumpah)

The main function for this “Tirta Pelebur Kutukan dan Sumpah” is to remove the curse of parents, ancestors and gods

1^st Fountain – Pancoran Tirta Pelebur Kutukan

To abolish / exterminate of unfulfilled obligations to family and ancestors.
To make a family at peace.
To get rid from the curse of ancestors, saints and gods

2^nd Fountain – Pancoran Tirta Pelebur Sumpah /Cor

To remove of an obligation or promise which is not fulfilled
To remove suffers of an unfulfilled vow, promises, perjury.

Jaba Tengah – Pool THREE, with 6 holy spring fountains (Tirta Penyakit Berat dan Tirtha Upakara)

The main function of this “Tirta PEnyakit Berat dan Tirta Upakara” is to cure severe illness and for ceremonies purpuses at home

1^st Fountain – Pancoran Tirta Gering

Good for getting rid of negative energy in yourself, neutralizing negative energy, eliminating the anger, purifying the outer and inner aura, acquiring offspring, curing severe illnesses such as cancer& infection.

2^nd Fountain – Pancoran Tirta Leteh

Speed up the healing of diseases, increase purity.
To get rid of the dirt and impurities in human and from the universe.
To get rid of negative energy after visiting to places which are not giving good energy.

3^rd Fountain – Pancoran Tirta Penyakit Berat

Cure severe illness.

4^th Fountain – Pancoran Tirta Pengulapan

To be explained

5^th Fountain – Pancoran Pengenteg Beras

To be explained

6^th Fountain – Pancoran Kesejahteraan Keluarga

To be explained

NOTE: The best time to shower in the pool is at midnight 23:59hrs or 00:00hrs. To get blessing and to get your asking/wish came true, you must first showered, prayed, and cleaned yourself at home before dipping in the holy water pools.

NOTE: Be sincere and follow the ritual.

Source: Translated from book “Tirta Empul karangan Bapak I Putu Ngurah Ardika, S.Sn”