Śrī Śiva-sahasranāmam 15—Drinker of Nectar
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 06/06/2023

Namaste 🙏 So this mantra of the Thousand Names of Śiva has two themes, and they are: Soma and light, effulgence, radiance, like that. So the first name, Somapo is somapā in the original (-o is a case ending), means 'unto Him who is entitled to drink the Soma juice.' Now you can get into a whole discussion of Soma. Soma is a deep subject, it's a rabbit hole. There are several candidates, reasonably good candidates for Soma; but my take on it, after doing a few years of research on it back in the 70s, is that the Soma plant is either extinct, or has been made so secret that nobody can  verify what it is. The particular plant that has the best chance of being authentic Soma has so many genetic variations that any of them could be the Soma that's talked about in the Vedas. But without extensive pharmacological testing—I should say, ethno-pharmacological testing—it's impossible to know which strain has the psychological or consciousness functions attributed to it in the Vedas.

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