<![CDATA[The lontar Siwa Sasana (also referred to as Siwa Sesana in parts of the secondary literature) is an Old Javanese-Balinese sasana text that regulates the conduct, obligations, and, crucially, the ritual legitimacy of Śaiva religious practitioners (sadhaka). Departing from prior studies that read Siwa Sasana solely as a treatise on pedagogical ethics, this article argues that the text is fundamentally concerned with the validity of the guru-acārya's sacramental authority within the tantric initiation (dīkṣā) system, such that readings anchored exclusively in the modern Hindu Susila framework (Tri Kaya Parisudha, Panca Yama Brata, Panca Niyama Brata, Asta Brata, Catur Paramita) risk losing the text's tantric-sacramental register. Using hermeneutic textual analysis and a philological-comparative approach to the official translated edition of Siwa Sasana (Tim Penerjemah Kantor Dokumentasi Budaya Bali (I G. A. Rai Arnita I W. Dunia I. B. K. Sindu I G. K. Dalem & I W. Sukayasa), 1996) alongside Old Javanese-Balinese Śaiva sources (Acri, 2006, 2011, 2018; Soebadio, 1971), the article shows that the guru's qualifications, prohibitions, obligations, and the disciple-selection system correspond partially, but not wholly or historically neutrally, with the Susila framework: some concepts (trikaya paramārtha, and terms corresponding to Catur Paramita) are explicitly textual, while the Panca Yama/Niyama Brata nomenclature familiar from modern Balinese Hindu education does not appear verbatim in the primary text and should therefore be flagged as an interpretive lens rather than an indigenous category. The article also corrects a miscount of the guru's qualifications in prior scholarship and foregrounds dīkṣā as sangaskara, a tantric purification involving ritual apparatus (bhasma, siwapakarana), rather than a merely administrative age requirement. Keywords: Siwa Sasana; Hindu Susila; Śaiva tantra; guru-śiṣya paramparā; dīkṣā; sangaskara]]>
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