"Manut sakadi kaprecayan para jana Baline, upacara ngaben wantah silih tunggil dasar sane pinih mabuat sajroning gagelaran kadiatmikan utawi 'kehidupan spiritual' jadmane. Maduluran antuk upacara pangabenan, atman manusane kelepasang saking angga sarira, mangda prasida ngungsi suarga tur manresti malih ka jagate."
[example 1]"According to Balinese Hindu beliefs, the cremation ceremony, or ngaben, is one of the most important steps in a person’s spiritual life. It is through cremation that the soul is released from the body to ascend to heaven to be reincarnated."
(credit: diterjemahkan oleh Putu Eka Guna Yasa, Budi Utami)