Sanskrit dan Islam Asia Tenggara: Bumi Pertiwi itu Syirik?

Menachem Ali, Airlangga University – Gurukula merupakan istilah bahasa Sanskrit dalam tradisi Hindu, maknanya sepadan dengan istilah “pesantren” dalam tradisi Islam Asia Tenggara. Istilah “gurukula” merupakan gabungan dari 2 kata, “guru” (lit. “pengajar kitab suci Weda”), dan “kula” (lit. “kediaman”). Jadi istilah “gurukula” bermakna “tempat kediaman/tempat sang guru yang mengajarkan kitab suci Weda kepada para murid-muridnya”). Salah satu kitab suci agama Hindu, yakni kitab Srimad Bhagavatam Purana VII.12.1 tertulis demikian:

Sri Narada uvaca
brahmacari guru-kule vasan danto guror hitam
acaran dasavan nico gurau sudrdha-sauhrdah.

Sri Narada said: “A student should practice completely controlling his senses. He should be submissive and should have an attitude of firm friendship for the spiritual master. With a great vow, the brahmacari – student who learns the Veda – live at the gurukula – house of the spiritual master – only for the benefit of the guru”, see A.C. Bhaktivedanta Srila Prabhupada, Srimad Bhagavatam Purana (Mumbai: the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999), hlm. 681