He tastes not that delight who is unripe and whose body has not suffered in the heat of the fire they alone are able to bear that and enjoy it who have been prepared by the flame. Wide spread out for thee is the sieve of thy purifying, O Master of the soul becoming in the creature thou pervadest his members all through.
However the physical form of the man that experienced the ecstasy of soma was expected to be prepared to receive this flood of elixir by his equally strong endurance of the burning fires of life which in the larger context pointed to the ultimate evolution of his consciousness: In the symbolization of the Vedic sacrifice, the human being was likened to the jar in which the Soma was stored as well as strained, endowing man with the secrets and powers of greater knowledge. Like Fire, Soma was understood to exist in plants, in the waters and within man as the core essence of divinity. And I become the scent and the taste of the sacred Soma, which is the wandering moon. I come into the earth and with life-giving love I support all things on earth. Apart from being associated with our immortal body- the ananda-maya kosha, Soma was also later identified with the moon: It was this experience of Soma that was associated with the transcendental light of higher realms of wisdom and it was by the discovery of Soma that man became God for it was the commonly shared spirit and essence of Soma which linked man with the Divine in spiritual lineage. Soma was indeed considered the bliss of all existence- which is the source of the universe and which is ultimately the key and secret to immortality.
In the Vedic tradition, Soma was not only a sacred ritual drink of the Devas, but was also seen as the supreme deity- the Lord of Ananda- Absolute Bliss. From the Chinese to the Greco-Egyptian, to the Gnostic, the Semitic, and the Hermetic, to other ancient alchemical traditions, all the conceptions of an ‘elixir of immortality’, ‘philosopher’s stone’ or ‘water of life’ have had their roots in the Vedic conception of ‘Soma’ for the ancient vedic soma ritual was the oldest form of alchemy known to man. The search for the elixir of life, the quest for the Holy Grail has been since time immemorial the preoccupation of every arcane mystery religion.
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