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The Barash Vow is a special vow taken by Jedi to avoid worldly concerns and solely focus on the force. The Vow has been taken by many Jedi over the years. The vow is speculated to effect more than the Star Wars comics and may play a part in the film Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
First Mentioned: Darth Vader #2 (2017)
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Vader and the Barash Vow Takers
Darth Vader is seeking to complete his training as a Sith after the Jedi Purge from Order 66. Emperor Palpatine has tasked Vader with finding and defeating a worthy Jedi and taking the Kyber crystal from his opponent's lightsaber. The crystal will then be perverted by the Darkside into one that can be used for his lightsaber.
Finding and locating a worthy Jedi is very difficult after the Purge as most of the active Jedi were killed or gone into deep hiding. Vader turns to searching through Jedi who have taken the Barash Vow. He asks a droid to go through the records and find all Jedi who have taken the vow so that he can located a worthy opponent. The droid responds that over 14 thousand Jedi have taken the vow and asks Vader to be more specific in his request.
The exact vow has not been mentioned however Vader describes it as:
Any Jedi pursing Barash has sworn to refrain from activities related to the order. Complete disengagement from anything but the force. It is a type of pennance. While a Barash-Taker would have felt the purge. They would not have allowed themselves to respond to it, or take action of any kind.The fact that Barash is something to be pursued suggests that it is possibly a mental state perhaps similar to the Budhist Nirvana that is associated with spiritual enlightment. Barash also seems to be a form of cleansing oneself after failing in some way. Which is highlighted by the description of it being a form of Pennance. In this way it sounds familiar to pilgrimages taken by Catholics as an acts of Pennance or spiritual enlightment.
Vader narrows down his search to a Jedi named Kirak Infil'a who had taken the vow of Barash prior to Vader beginning his Jedi training. It is Kirak Infil'a who Vader seeks out to defeat and complete his training as a Sith.
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Kirak Infil'a meditating |
How many other Barash Takers continue to survive is unknown. It is also unknown at what point a Barash taker would end his vow. It seems to be something done very seriousily and may be to the death and/or enlightment occure.
Kirak Infil'a is described as being more powerful than any Jedi that Darth Vader has ever faced. Presuably, during the Barash Vow a Jedi grows more attuned to the Force and even more powerful.
Has Luke in the Force Awakens taken a Barash Vow?
Why did Luke leave the world and isolate himself on a remote world. Why did he not respond when he felt the First Order rise and destroy so many planets?
The answer may be that he has taken the Barash Vow.
We do know that Luke attempted to rebuild the Jedi Temple and that it ended horribly when Kylo Ren joined with Snoke and the Knights of Ren. This seemed to end with the slaughter of Luke's remaining pupils. After this tradgedy Luke could have taken the vow as a form of pennance.
This seems like a plausible theory for what Luke has done.
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