![]() ![]() Mercury, one of the primary metals used in rasashastra preparations, is thought to make the body perfect. Rasashastra is a type of alchemy medicine native to India, and involves the purification of metals and gems through a process of alternate heating, cooling, oxidizing and crushing, until a fine pure ash of consumable medicine is left, called a bhasma. Other scholars hypothesize that soma is a bhasma, a type of ayurvedic medicine made according to rasashastra. The 9th Mandela in the Rg Veda, called the Soma Mandela, devotes 114 hymns to the purification of Soma, which is said to bring those who drink it to ecstasy. Some researchers theorize this is not the soma plant referred to in the Vedic texts, and believe soma is an unidentified, hallucinogenic plant, that grows in northern India and Nepal. Rituals described in the Vedic texts, still practiced in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, make soma from a plant harvested in the Himalayas. Every evening all the gods dip a finger into the moon-cup and drink the soma until the moon is empty. The moon is sometimes referred to as a cup the gods drink soma from to maintain their immortality. The tantric systems in India, teach that soma rasa is made from moon’s waters. The correct utilization of soma rasa via meditation, diet, ritual, and yoga results in total rejuvenation of the human form. Soma is created internally within natural physiological processes, and harvested externally from plants and herbs. The mythic stories of soma rasa describe its literal power in the human body. Soma rasa, also called amrita, is a Sanskrit word meaning “nectar of immortality.’’ Like the legendary “Fountain of Youth,” there are many speculations regarding the origin and location of soma rasa. The Vedic sutras and ayurvedic texts, describe a sacred drink called soma rasa, said to beget eternal life. ![]()
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