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Soma (Samskrit : सोमः) has been described as anna (grains) for the devatas in the Chandogya Upanishad. Primarily described as Soma lata, a creeper from which the Somarasa (juice) is prepared, it plays an important role in the Somayajna. The Vedas describe Indra, the Devadhipati, often being invited and offered Somarasa during the yajnas.<ref name=":0" />

Soma (Samskrit : सोमः) has been described as anna (grains) for the devatas in the Chandogya Upanishad. Primarily described as Soma lata (सोमलता), a creeper from which the Somarasa (juice) is prepared, it plays an important role in the Somayajna. The Vedas describe Indra, the Devadhipati, often being invited and offered Somarasa during the yajnas.<ref name=":0" />

==वेदेषु सोमः ॥ Soma in the Vedas==

==वेदेषु सोमः ॥ Soma in the Vedas==

Soma enhances our speech and pronunciation just as the boatman who plies the boat in the waters seamlessly, and is therefore known as Vachaspati (expert in the art of speech). It can invoke powerful feelings within our mind and directs us to Prarthana (prayers).  He is the master amongst poets, Rishi amongst the brahamanas and the brahamanas worship him as the king. He is the heart of the yajna and the distributor of knowledge.

Soma enhances our speech and pronunciation just as the boatman who plies the boat in the waters seamlessly, and is therefore known as Vachaspati (expert in the art of speech). It can invoke powerful feelings within our mind and directs us to Prarthana (prayers).  He is the master amongst poets, Rishi amongst the brahamanas and the brahamanas worship him as the king. He is the heart of the yajna and the distributor of knowledge.

In the battle between Indra and Vrtrasura, he was the cause of Indra’s victory as He is the thunder weapon (Vajra) of Indra, hence known as the atma of Indra.  Or he a.  He gave birth to Surya in the water, and he causes sunrise.  e himself is warrior, he has never lost battle, those warriors who worship him, and he offers them anything they desire.  Those Brahmanas who drink somarasa, have the power to burn their enemies simply by the glance.  In earthly planet he resides in mountains.  He has birds eyes view over every one.  Anything, and any one has connection to soma is generally called as somya in vedic language.<ref name=":0">Narayanacharya K. S. (2011), Veda Sanskritiya Parichaya (Volume 1), Hubli:​Sahitya Prakashana​.</ref>

In the battle between Indra and Vrtrasura, he was the cause of Indra’s victory as He is the thunder weapon (Vajra) of Indra, hence known as the atma of Indra.  

The western Indologist, bereft of Vedic wisdom and Indians who have no pride in the Vedas go by the Whiteman’s version of सोम that of an intoxicating beverage. This is deeply revealing of their malicious intentions to portray our scriptures as and our sages in denigrating and frivolous terms.  According to them suktadarshi is not rishi, they mention that the sage being intoxicated tends to thinl of himself as a Rishi. One Christian priest (Religion of Rig veda by H.D. Graiswald, page 214-215)) who may himself be under the influence of ordinar intoxicant rashly concludes that there is no difference between liquor and Soma rasa. The difference is one is used for yajna and other is used for general purpose of consuming. He further comes up with the fanciful theory that Somarasa helps in increasing sexual appetite. His profound knowledge of our great culture is based merely on two incidents. Àt a camp, when he asked a drunk cobbler as to why he drank, the cobbler replied,  if I do not drink, how will I produce children? In 1890, the same Christian priest met an Indian, who told this priest, if he did not drink whisky then he would have been dead long back.  The equation of the sacred Soma to alcohol (introduced along with opium into India and China by the East India Company nations itself to destroy Bharat) and also that Indian were drunkards is not only vicious but false propaganda. This pathetic scholarship reveals the malafide intentions of the White traders to not only denigrate our knowledge systems but also impose falsehoods and non-existent discriminatory systems that were not part of our Vedic traditions. An example of this was the oppositional categories: gods-demons, fire-blood, man-woman, twice-born-shudra, purity-pollution, death-immortality.

In the introduction itself he clarifies that he does not comprehend the Vedas as he cannot understand the feeling of words or cannot explain the words, but has borrowed the meaning from elsewhere, mostly from secondary sources. Ironically, he  indicates not only his ignorance of our systems but also his audacity at studying us from a position of superiority. But that this was accepted and has become the explanation for our knowledge systems indicates the hegemony of the West on our academic, health, and all our systems. And the most significant factor is that these conclusions reign till date and determine our discourse and actions. Also our glorious heritage has completely been blanked out leaving the people of Bharat completly without connection to their roots as we pursue systems that are not only dysfunctional but alien.

He gave birth to Surya in the water, and he causes sunrise.  e himself is warrior, he has never lost battle, those warriors who worship him, and he offers them anything they desire.  Those Brahmanas who drink somarasa, have the power to burn their enemies simply by the glance. In earthly planet he resides in mountains. He has birds eyes view over every one. Anything, and any one has connection to soma is generally called as somya in vedic language.<ref name=":0">Narayanacharya K. S. (2011), Veda Sanskritiya Parichaya (Volume 1), Hubli:​Sahitya Prakashana​.</ref>

A logical question would be that if the dharmic rishis were Somarasa drunkards as insinuated by Western evangelists, the Rig veda (XI, all 114 suktas) would not eulogise Soma and the rishis would not have performed yajna while honouring Soma. If it was an alcoholic beverage, why would drinking it only be restricted to three times a day. Soma is not a ordinary beverage, it is the symbol of divinity and only the most qualified brahamanas were able to drink (तत्त्वपणा | tattvapana) it, this is the conclusion of vedas.<blockquote>सोमं मन्यते पपिवान्यत्सम्पिंषन्त्योषधिम् । सोमं यं ब्रह्माणो विदुर्न तस्याश्नाति कश्चन ॥३॥<ref>Rgveda, Mandala 10, [https://sa.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%A4%8B%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%83_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%82_%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%A6.%E0%A5%AE%E0%A5%AB Sukta 85].</ref></blockquote><blockquote>''somaṁ manyate papivānyatsampiṁṣantyoṣadhim । somaṁ yaṁ brahmāṇo vidurna tasyāśnāti kaścana ॥3॥'' (X-85-3)</blockquote>The Sayana Bhashya claims that those who desire sexual appetite, should consider Somarasa as an intoxication and extract its juice through the chemical method and drink it. Such persons consider Somarasa as ordinary juice, but the wise Brahamanas (brahmajnani) and the [[Rtvik (ऋत्विक्)|rtvik]] yajamanas understood the real essence of सोम. In other words, the soma is not some ordinary juice extracted from the creeper as explained in the Vedas. Those who have actually honored the Soma, the brahamvadini, mahajnanis, those who are immersed in Brahman, explained the [[सोम|Soma]] differently;<blockquote>अपाम सोमममृता अभूमागन्म ज्योतिरविदाम देवान् । किं नूनमस्मान्कृणवदरातिः किमु धूर्तिरमृत मर्त्यस्य ॥३॥<ref>Rgveda, Mandala 8, [https://sa.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%A4%8B%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%83_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%82_%E0%A5%AE.%E0%A5%AA%E0%A5%AE Sukta 48].</ref></blockquote><blockquote>''apāma somamamr̥tā abhūmāganma jyotiravidāma devān । kiṁ nūnamasmānkr̥ṇavadarātiḥ kimu dhūrtiramr̥ta martyasya ॥3॥ (VIII-48-3 Rik samhita)''</blockquote>Meaning: We have honored soma rasa, we have become immortal, achieved the param jyoti (highest light), have understand all the devas, what can the enemies do to us? Hey Soma, what can the enemies who are wicked to do me, even though I am mortal?

== Soma in Upanishads ==

Pitruyana marga outlined in detail in the Chandogya Upanishad <blockquote>मासेभ्यः पितृलोकं पितृलोकादाकाशमाकाशाच्चन्द्रमसमेष सोमो राजा तद्देवानामन्नं तं देवा भक्षयन्ति ॥ ४ ॥ (Chan. Upan. 5.10.4)</blockquote><blockquote>māsebhyaḥ pitṛlokaṃ pitṛlokādākāśamākāśāccandramasameṣa somo rājā taddevānāmannaṃ taṃ devā bhakṣayanti ॥ 4 ॥ (Chan. Upan. 5.10.4)</blockquote>

Many western as well as "modern Indian" interpretations bereft of Vedic wisdom proclaim that सोम is an intoxicating beverage. Such versions about the nature of Soma reveals the malicious intentions to portray Bharatiya Vaidika Parampara and the rishis and maharshis in denigrating and frivolous terms. According to them suktadarshi is not rishi, they mention that the seer being intoxicated tends to "think of himself as a rishi".

Such people who are ignorant and demean Soma are ignorant of the Vedas and its profound wisdom and false keepers of our knowledge systems.

One Christian priest (Religion of Rig veda by H.D. Graiswald, page 214-215)) may be under the influence of ordinary intoxicant rashly concludes that there is no difference between liquor and Soma rasa. The difference is one is used for yajna and other is used for general purpose of consuming. He further comes up with the fanciful theory that Somarasa helps in increasing sexual appetite.  

Similarly, the great Vamadeva Rishi, who drank the Soma, says, I have realised the secret behind the birth of Indra and others, previously my body which was like iron shackles did not allow me, to experience [[Brahman (ब्रह्मन्)|Brahman]], because of being bound.  Since I who took the dress of Garuda, I was split open the covering of body (since I drank soma rasa).  Even though this body binds me, but I am not covered with ignorance, illusion, even the pain of being in the womb has been overcome by my power of wisdom.  The ईश्वरः | Isvara, who is in the form of Soma) has helped me to conquer my enemies of the womb, he helped me to cross all the layers of air in the womb, that Isvara, is complete, and the source and inspirer of the entire cosmos.  One who speak such profound words, Vamadeva, should he be considered insane or a great brahma jnani?

 

 

Similarly, the great Vamadeva Rishi, who drank the Soma, says, I have realised the secret behind the birth of Indra and others, previously my body which was like iron shackles did not allow me, to experience [[Brahman (ब्रह्मन्)|Brahman]], because of being bound.  Since I who took the dress of Garuda, I was split open the covering of body (since I drank soma rasa).  Even though this body binds me, but I am not covered with ignorance, illusion, even the pain of being in the womb has been overcome by my power of wisdom.  The ईश्वरः | Isvara, who is in the form of Soma) has helped me to conquer my enemies of the womb, he helped me to cross all the layers of air in the womb, that Isvara, is complete, and the source and inspirer of the entire cosmos.  One who speak such profound words, Vamadeva, should he be considered insane or a great brahma jnani?

Even small children can understand this in India. One more thing is expressed by Vamadeva; to prove his complete surrender, he compares himself to body and the supreme being as the atma, hence it shows the paramatama’s complete body. (this is explained in the brahamasutras in regards to indrapranadhikaran shastra dhristhyatu upadesha vamadevatah Vedavyasa explained exactly in the above fashion)  I was Manu, Sun god, Rishi Kashikavana, Arjuna,Kutsa and also krantadarshi, who is rishi named, Ushanasa.  Hey all humans, please understand me who is very wonder.  I gave earth to Manu, I was the one who gave rain to man who is engaged in yajna.  I am the originator of rivers.  All the devas follow my sankalpa (resolve) I was the one who became Indra, and gave protection to Divodasa rishi, who was from royal family. By my power he destroyed 99 towns of demon Shambarasura, and settled in 100th town.  In this way (one who provided energy to me and divodasa) Garuda who brought the grain of devatas who are personified in Soma, from the planet brahma loka, in the fomr of suparna,  for this reason let it become elevated ('''Rik sam VI- 26-27''')

Even small children can understand this in India. One more thing is expressed by Vamadeva; to prove his complete surrender, he compares himself to body and the supreme being as the atma, hence it shows the paramatama’s complete body. (this is explained in the brahamasutras in regards to indrapranadhikaran shastra dhristhyatu upadesha vamadevatah Vedavyasa explained exactly in the above fashion)  I was Manu, Sun god, Rishi Kashikavana, Arjuna,Kutsa and also krantadarshi, who is rishi named, Ushanasa.  Hey all humans, please understand me who is very wonder.  I gave earth to Manu, I was the one who gave rain to man who is engaged in yajna.  I am the originator of rivers.  All the devas follow my sankalpa (resolve) I was the one who became Indra, and gave protection to Divodasa rishi, who was from royal family. By my power he destroyed 99 towns of demon Shambarasura, and settled in 100th town.  In this way (one who provided energy to me and divodasa) Garuda who brought the grain of devatas who are personified in Soma, from the planet brahma loka, in the fomr of suparna,  for this reason let it become elevated ('''Rik sam VI- 26-27''')