Sunday Special--Som Ras ,The Drink of Gods!
Soma Ras, the Drink of the Gods! Soma is a Vedic Sanskrit word that literally means "distill, extract,Sprinkle" The oldest known distiller in South Asia. was discovered from the ruins of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization in Pakistan’s present-day Sindh province. The distiller is said to be over 4000 years old. Displayed in a museum in the Pakistan city of Taxila, archeologists say it was used to distill oil and alcoholic beverages. An ancient painting showing a Hindu deity drinking soma. Soma was a wine made from the extract of wild mushrooms and some other plants. The drink is first mentioned in the earliest sacred Hindu text, the Rigveda (composed 3000 years ago). Interestingly, though Rigveda advised people to desist from drinking alcoholic beverages, it encouraged them to prepare and drink soma which it described as ‘holy.’ Rigveda 1.91.22 states that: “O Soma, You alone create the medicines that heal us. You alone c...