salyavin, I think it'll be fascinating when science can give us an indication of what might be meant by gods in this context and also by eating. BTW, I think soma has something to do with immortality so no wonder they sing its praises.
On Friday, April 4, 2014 8:05 AM, salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: I couldn't begin to calculate the chances of a coincidence like that Share! The 9th mandala is about a drink made from plants, and it must have been a good one considering how much they go on about it. The idea of good digestion giving you good spiritual experiences is a given though, just not sure about the gods eating it. Gives me the creeps that bit....no wonder they banned the video. But the same thing? You'd have to find both and see. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote : salyavin, is it possible that soma is both? Both something found in plants and in the gut of long term spiritual practitioners? On Friday, April 4, 2014 1:10 AM, salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Respond intelligently to what, your comments on the LINK I posted about Soma? You didn't make any, you went on a meaningless ramble about TM translations as though they are different somehow from the ones everyone else reads. Look at the wiki article. Soma is drink made from a plant. Why the hell would Marshy give us a book supporting that if thought something else anyway? You aren't making any sense. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote : Bit of a problem responding intelligently, eh, Salyavin? Are you for real? You mean, anyone who has read the Ninth Mandala in the translation TM uses will know that's how the Ninth Mandala in that translation describes soma. But they won't necessarily know to what degree that description is symbolic/poetic/metaphorical rather than literal, or even whether the original has been translated accurately (from the ancient Sanskrit to German, then from German to English). Indeed, and why bother? Anyone who has read the 9th Mandala of the Rig Veda will know it's a drink made from plant extracts. Soma (Sanskrit सोम sóma), or Haoma (Avestan), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sauma-, was a Vedic ritual drink[1] of importance among the early Indo-Iranians, and the subsequent Vedic and greater Persian cultures. It is frequently mentioned in the Rigveda, whose Soma Mandala contains 114 hymns, many praising its energizing qualities. In the Avesta, Haoma has the entire Yašt 20 and Yasna 9-11 dedicated to it. It is described as being prepared by extracting juice from the stalks of a certain plant. In both Vedic and Zoroastrian tradition, the name of the drink and the plant are the same, and also personified as a divinity, the three forming a religious or mythological unity. There has been much speculation concerning what is most likely to have been the identity of the original plant. There is no solid consensus on the question, although some Western experts outside the Vedic and Avestan religious traditions now seem to favour a species of Ephedra, perhaps Ephedra sinica http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma Sounds speedy!
