From: Vaj
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Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 8:19
PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re:
New Vedic Translation? Euphedra
On
Mar 14, 2005, at 8:10 PM, akasha_108 wrote:
> Are you
under the impression that Soma only existed in Rig Veda times?
> I don't
know that it did or did not, though I speculate that it has
> been
formulated in its outer form at various times through the ages.
Well there
is a very old tradition of soma which may date to pre-Vedic
times, and
that is the Soma-siddhanta. It is a tantric practice and
centers
around a bizarre etymology of the word soma. In tantra,
different
approaches to the state of Unity will be concealed by two
words joined
together in one word. In Soma-siddhanta, soma is actually
the compound
sa-Umaa, that is Shiva and Uma conjoined.
Their nectar
of union is soma.
-Vaj.
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Vaj,
This is interesting. Tell me more about “Soma-siddhanta”.
I could not find anything about its history. You call it a tradition and a
practice. Is it a book or texts? What is its liturgical basis? You say it could
be older than the Vedas. Upon what do you base this?
We know Shiva, but what is “Uma”?
-Mark
