meaning of Somo Vaa yetasya - Vedic
mantra for arati in Sanskrit with meaning
Courtesy:Sri. k v ananthanarayanan
सोमो वा एत राज्यं आदत्ते। यो राजा सन् राज्यो वा सोमेन यजते। देवसुवामेतानि
हवीग्ंषि भवन्ति।तावन्तो वै देवानाग्ं
सवः । त एवास्मै सवान् यन्ति। त एनं पुनः सुवन्ते राज्याय। देवसू राजा भवति।
somo vā etasya rājyaṁ ādatte| yo rājā san rājyo vā somena yajate|
devasuvāmetāni haveegṁṣi
bhavanti |tāvanto vai devānāgṁ savaḥ | ta evāsmai savān prayacchanti| ta
enaṁ punaḥ suvante
rājyāya| devasū rājā bhavati|
Krishna Yajurveda Taittireeya Aranyakam First Ashtakam Fourth Adhyaayam
Second Anuvakam..
(Final Mantram in that Anuvakam)
All would have heard this mantra. We chant this great Mantram when we offer
Camphor light or Karpoora Neera Janam to the deity. It is actually in
praise of Agni and Soma. Soma is the deity of herbs and medicine, also
considered as the Moon. [KR: WHAT IS KNOWN TO KVA IS NOT KNOWN TO THE
JIBER NARAYANASAMY?]{ SOMA IS IN EVERY VEDAM AS ONE OF THE MEANINGS JUICE
OR DRINK SO JIBER OUGHT TO HAVE THOUGHT BEFIRE HIS FOOLISH ACT}
The right and control of everything is with Soma. And the person who is
eligible and desirous to be the leader or the king on a permanent basis,
offers everything including the possession and the capacity to be the king.
in fire sacrifice to Soma symbolically and then havis, purodaasha, *soma
juice etc* are offered in fire to Agni Soma and other related deities who
are pleased with such offer and would give back the kingdom and leadership
to the yajaman When we do the Karpoora Harati. we are assuming that we are
offering everything we have to the deity. and the deity, pleased with our
pooja is presenting us back all that is offered to it and all the
Aishvaryams too in addition Meaning of the Mantra.. A general translation
based on the commentary by Sayana Acharya..
This person (yajamana) who is a king and a person eligible to be a king
too.. performed Soma sacrifice and offered his kingship along with all
possession and the kingdom to Soma.. who consecrated them.. Now to redeem
back that kingship and kingdom, offers in havis *and soma juice are being
given to *Agni Soma and connected divine beings.
The Gods are capable of blessing the performer of the sacrifice done
through offering of havis(cooked rice or grain etc ), with the control over
his own house, his kingdom and all the sublime blessings or Aishvaryas.
When offerings in cooked grain *soma juice etc are* offered to these
various gods, they give back the Kingdom, leadership over the house and
nation, and all the Aishvaryams to the performer of Sacrifice.
And thus persuaded and blessed by the various divinities, this person who
is the yajamana of the sacrifice, becomes the king, leader and the sublime
one..
We take offer everything to God,, and receive back those great and sublime
things from Him with his blessings added and then alone we can live happily
That was the Indian Vedic concept.
Tena Tyakthen Bhunjeethaa... in Ishaavasya upanishad to conveys this idea.
K Rajaram IRS 7425
On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 at 11:14, Narayanaswamy Iyer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Dear folks
>
> Stung by my quotes from the first three chapter of the r'g-vedam -- where
> the vedic gods such as indra, mithran, varuna, vaayu, the ashvini twins,
> agni, the maaruts, savitha, aaryama, usha, bhagan, raathri, AND THEIR WIVES
> gather round the venue of the fire-sacrifice to *cavort and to quaff the
> intoxicating soma-juice specially prepared for them like toddy from
> coconut sap* -- the uninitiated uneducated uninitiated uneducated
> unemployed ex-tax collectors and current garbage-collectors who wear no
> poonal, perform no nithya-karmas, or pithru-kriyas, never underwent any
> samskaarams nor attended any veda paata-shaala nor had any religious
> education under competent, trained, experienced and committed gurus, cannot
> be expected to know or even understand any of my quotes.
>
> So they babble crazily about soma-juice being a Greek word, about it being
> a process, about it being responsive and wise, about indra "*drinking
> hefty amounts of Soma in order to gain sufficient strength and resources to
> defeat the primal serpent, Vrtra*".
>
> They even go so far as to twist blatantly the historic puranic tale about
> the celestials and the demons tussling over possession of the jar of
> amrutham (when Lord Sree Mahaa vishnu intervened as Mohini), and commit
> blasphemy by labelling the amrutham as soma-juice.
>
> S Narayanaswamy Iyer
>
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM Rajaram Krishnamurthy <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> What is Soma?
>>
>> The body of life. Body consciousness. The wisdom of the body.
>>
>> These are all simplified expressions of Soma.
>>
>> In Greek, the word Soma evolved to mean ‘the body living in its
>> wholeness.’ It is also a word biologists use to distinguish the whole
>> living body from its chromosomes alone.
>>
>> Expanding awareness of our wholeness
>>
>> The last century has expanded upon Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution
>> to find a broader perspective; where ‘the human species is not the model of
>> life, but one of its most specialized forms.’ When we were removed from the
>> center of the scientific stage, we were able to view ourselves in a larger
>> context — ‘a biological context out of which life arose’.
>>
>> We discovered our existence through a kaleidoscope of fields including:
>> genetics, biochemistry, biophysics, ethology, anthropology,
>> neurophysiology, and more.
>>
>> Our existence is more than a body. But it is through the body that life
>> arose.
>>
>> Life enters the world in the form of a body
>>
>> The body of life that emerged on earth, that is our essence, is unlike
>> any other and must not be confused with the simpler physical bodies in the
>> world.
>>
>> ‘At first glance, life’s body looked like a physical body, but what was
>> radically different was that it did not behave like a simple collection of
>> atoms. It moved independently, it reproduced itself, it selectively engaged
>> with its environment, it held together as a single system, and it did many,
>> many other things…’
>>
>> As such, we ascribe a new meaning to this life… SOMA.
>>
>> Dimensions of existence
>>
>> Soma exists beyond the 3D plane. It has height, depth, width, and time.
>> It is a constant state of change, balancing, and renewal. This task is
>> forever in process and forever incomplete… it is a variable constant.
>>
>> We are unchanging in our change.
>>
>> Soma is a process
>>
>> If we think of our physical body, we find connotations of static, still,
>> and finite. When we move beyond to think of Soma, we connect with the ideas
>> of fluidity, change and adaptation, and self-regulation.
>>
>> Soma does not exist as a thing. Soma is a process. We are in a constant
>> state of process. Our cells will be replaced over and over and over again
>> during our lifetime. It is the Soma itself that has ‘synthetic integrity
>> and holds together through time.’
>>
>> Systemic and Neurological
>>
>> The neural system provides a central control that is responsible for the
>> process that is SOMA. This function is obvious in humans and higher-order
>> animals, but also in the simplest one-celled organisms. Looking from micro
>> to macro illustrates that the function of the nervous system existed from
>> the beginning and has mutated and adapted over time.
>>
>> Our neural structure is constantly evolving and is the foundation of our
>> wholeness.
>>
>> A Self-guiding Process
>>
>> ‘The Soma appeared as a whirling, integrated process of atoms that
>> behaved freely and independently from the rest of the world.’
>>
>> Soma is strong in its identity. It is self-guiding, self-correcting, and
>> moves based on its interests, needs, and wants. It is not a ‘what’ but a
>> ‘how’.
>>
>> Soma is a process.
>>
>> Cellular and Connected
>>
>> Our greater body of life is made of millions of tiny atoms. These atoms
>> work together to form a greater whole. One atom is not in isolation from
>> the next. They fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. It is with purpose and
>> intent that they create a bigger picture. The formation of this bigger
>> picture is no accident. It is nuanced and precise. Just like the
>> intricacies of connecting jigsaw pieces, two atoms will ‘fit’ in very
>> specific ways. A molecule only comes into existence when there is a perfect
>> melding of electrons. This is called ‘bond’. It is through our microscopic
>> bonding that we find our wholeness.
>>
>> Our greater body is a collection of one-celled bodies. ‘It is a soma made
>> up of somas’
>>
>> Preserving Order
>>
>> Soma seeks to preserve order by constantly self-adjusting…. By finding a
>> new normal both within itself and within its external environment.
>>
>> There is little entropy and randomness in Soma. There is an all-knowing
>> ability to adapt.
>>
>> ‘Life’s response to the law of entropy is to organize a collection of
>> atoms so that the presumed loss of free energy does not occur.’
>>
>> Soma is responsive and wise.
>>
>> Complexity creates efficiency
>>
>> It is through the collection and collaboration of atoms, that efficiency
>> and purpose are achieved.
>>
>> Many hands make light work.
>>
>> Many atoms working together make the dance of life more graceful. The
>> more complex, the more efficient the biological system.
>>
>> We are ever subtler and intricate in our process as we continue to evolve.
>>
>> Considering Soma in current life
>>
>> While the exploration of Soma may seem esoteric, it is relevant to our
>> health and wellbeing at every moment. When disorder or disharmony arises
>> within us, there is somatic dysregulation. Something has caused a
>> miscommunication of our atoms — a chink in the chain of our natural order.
>> This may stem from the internal or the external and manifestations may be
>> vast and varied. When we re-establish communication and cohesion through
>> Soma, we tap into our innate, self-directing, and self-adjusting nature. We
>> come to homeostasis.
>>
>> Layered Health developments
>>
>> Somatic therapists subscribe to the idea that our body is in constant
>> process, each cell is connected and in a broader and more accessible sense,
>> each ‘layer’ of the body and mind are connected and continuously affect
>> each other. When we present with dysregulation or symptoms, we look not
>> just to the manifestation, but the whole person to find access points for
>> re-establishing homeostasis… our natural way of being.
>>
>> II The Psychological Meaning of Soma
>>
>>
>>
>> BOOK 9 of the Rig Veda contains 114 hymns to Soma. Soma is presented
>> variously as a god, an ambrosia of immortality drunk by gods, and a ritual
>> elixir with spiritual powers consumed by human beings. Our main interest
>> here is what Soma means in terms of archetypal psychology, and especially
>> what it symbolizes at the level of spiritual consciousness, meditation,
>> contemplation and the like.
>>
>> In the Vedas, Soma — the drink and the god — is associated with a
>> vivifying, quickening and strengthening of consciousness. Because
>> consciousness itself may be directed in many ways (e.g., sensation,
>> thought, contemplation) so too the gifts of Soma are manifold. Here the
>> reader is encouraged simply to read a few of the Hymns of Book 9. Good
>> examples include Hymns 1, 4, 28, 36, 81, 86 and 100.
>>
>> The Soma principle evidently adds to human Consciousness an affective
>> dimension of intoxication, delight, joy and pleasure. As a god, Soma is
>> associated with the Moon (which beautifies objects by reflecting the Sun’s
>> light). Soma also has parallels with the Greek god, Dionysius.
>>
>> Two important myths are associated with Soma. In one, the powerful deity
>> Indra (a sky god and counterpart of Zeus) drinks hefty amounts of Soma in
>> order to gain sufficient strength and resources to defeat the primal
>> serpent, Vrtra. Vrtra is the source of the evils that afflict humanity (or,
>> symbolically, that which oppose the integrity of the human psyche).
>>
>> In another myth, the Asuras (good divinities) defeat the Devas (demonic
>> powers) in a war to see who will have access to Soma, the elixir of
>> immortality. This myth resembles the war between the Olympians and the
>> Titans in Greek mythology: psychologically, the Asuras symbolize the more
>> virtuous elements of the psyche, and the Devas our powerful natural
>> appetites in their unregulated condition.
>>
>> Because the descriptions for the preparation of Soma are so detailed in
>> Rig Veda 9, it’s generally been assumed that the drink was actually
>> consumed in ancient religious practices. This view is supported by the
>> fact that the Persian equivalent, called haoma, described in the Avesta, is
>> still drunk by certain Zoroastrians. There has been much speculation as to
>> what this ancient drink might have contained. One widely spread (but
>> scarcely credible) theory is that ancient Soma was based on hallucinogenic
>> mushrooms (either psilocybin, or Amanita muscaria). A more popular view
>> today is that the ancient Aryans brought to India a drink based on some
>> combination of cannabis, ephedra and opium. This view is supported by (1)
>> ancient and continued use of cannabis as an entheogen by some Hindu sects,
>> (2) use of ephedra in the above-mentioned contemporary Zoroastrian drink,
>> and (3) most intriguingly, recent discoveries of 4000 year-old temple
>> complexes in Turkmenistan that contain many vats, sieves and so on
>> evidently used for food or drink preparation that contain residues of these
>> three substances.
>>
>> Even if there was historically a drink, Soma, made of psychedelic
>> substances, our greater concern is not what went into it, but what positive
>> alterations of consciousness are described. The Soma hymns were likely
>> composed over many centuries. While initially they may have been used in
>> connection with actual drinking rituals, over time the genre might have
>> been adapted to instead convey allegorical and psychological teachings.
>> Nevertheless if ancient people did drink a beverage made of cannabis and
>> ephedra, it must have packed quite a wallop! Throughout the hymns we find
>> images of powerful steeds, chariots and bulls.
>>
>> References
>>
>> Asrani, U. A. The Psychology of Mysticism. In: John White (ed.), The
>> Highest State of Consciousness 2nd ed., White Crow, 2012. (Article
>> originially appeared in Main Currents in Modern Thought, 25, 68–73, 1969.)
>>
>> Choudhury, Raja. Soma: The Psychedelic Origins of Religious Experience.
>> Video. 27 August 2015.
>>
>> K Rajaram IRS 7425
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