• Dr. Sanjiban Sengupta

Soma is a symbol for the aspiring Ananda, the touch of Bliss, from which, in the Vedic symbolism, the existence of Humanity, this thinking being, is drawn. Soma being a plant is seen as a sacred offering to the Vedic gods. This external sacred ritual is basically the symbolism of the inner sacrifice, a deeper life of Mysticism. Soma offers strength to ritualists along with the gods since Indra slew Vritra by the power of Soma. Soma appears to be a plant by which a drink is prepared through pressing and it is called to have a certain positive effect on the mind of the drinkers. The Soma has been recognized as one of the effective elements of all medicinal preparations in the Vedic era. The juice of the creeper Soma is the main oblation in this ritual. Sri Aurobindo gives us a inner meaning of it saying that it helps man to enlighten and purify his mind and heart out of narrowness and obscurity; turning from impurity to purity, ugliness to the delight of existence, from darkness and obscurity to the divine and immortal Ananda. So by dint of Yogic practices of self-perfection all the elements of human viz., physical, vital, emotional and mental beings have to be purified to reveal the Divine Estacy, Bliss and Ananda. The ecstasy increasing through it in man exalts him to his highest possibilities and goads him capable of supreme experience. Thus, Soma seems to be one of the important aspects of Vedic ritualism, spiritual discourses alongwith one of the important subjects in medicinal world also.

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"THE VEDIC SOMA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 3, page no.i257-i263, March-2025, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2503836.pdf

"THE VEDIC SOMA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 3, page no. ppi257-i263, March-2025, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2503836.pdf