Soma

There's a lot more we can deduce from the Deity relations. They can lead us to deeper scientific thoughts. But the mind has to trained well to use them effectively. Since Vedas has been part of religion for so long, and as I mentioned earlier about the science of benevolent living, I'll stick to such types of discussions mainly. According to me religion is dirty and it needs to be cleaned up. It is actually the first thing that has to be cleaned up before anything else, even before cleaning up politics, because they are the set of rules people live by as they grow. Yes... since it's something that grows(Agni- learning/consumption) you, it can really define your character. So if it's dirty, you'll become the same. Somehow religion has convinced us that there exist two imaginary worlds, one above us where Gods live in cloudy like places and the other is below us where Demons live with fire and snakes. Well if you think about it, its actually true that there are clouds above us and fire below us. Snakes???... I'm not so sure about... People long ago were poetic and dramatic about everything... They related thoughts with natural elements or with things we experience daily just to convey us their message... Actually thinking that's how things literally are is quite unacceptable... and that's what has happened over time... well to be honest, there was a point of time in the Earth's history that turned mankind to be arrogant, greedy, jealous, dishonest, etc... mankind was never as such before... mankind divided itself and manipulated thoughts to their communities so that they have different beliefs from others and remain separate... it is this that has caused all the havoc and confusion which was not allowed to be questioned... they were supposed to believe it whether it made sense or not... if it didn't they were told to make sense out of it(the senseless). Simple example... just a few decades ago, people in India were burning widows with their dead husbands alive because somewhere in the Vedas it said that the wife burns with her dead husband... they literally thought that was supposed to be done for real, missing its poetic or dramatic flavour... now its no more because India has progressed scientifically over the years... I'll explain that particular notion when somewhere in my blog I feel I have covered enough material to explain it... I believe in step by step learning so that the person reading this blog can fully understand the concepts I explain from the Vedas. I will not make the same mistake that was done earlier. If there's something I don't understand, you won't find it in my blog, and I will not convince you to believe in it... I will not create imaginary worlds for you and so do the Vedas...

SOMA:

Soma is depicted as the drink of the Gods/Deities. So now we are talking about materials that are consumed. Well now that we know that any object(Prithvi) has life(Agni) and can consume(Agni) from its environment(Dyava), that particular material it consumes is Soma. This Soma can be humans in a Customer Service Centre or cars moving on different lanes of a road. Whatever you are modelling, the material that enters the body(Prithvi) from outside(Dyava) is the Soma. The next thing we do is to specify amounts and how they are distributed or moved about (Vayu). Now we are talking numbers... a very important thing for scientific discoveries as well. So when we have parameters(Deities) in a system or equation, they take in numbers/values(Soma) and that decides it's response. So just like numbers are important in science, the Soma concept is also important in Vedic ideologies.

The Vedas describe Indra and Agni as the two main lovers of Soma. And Indra loves Soma more that Agni. If we put Soma as eatable food, this idea will make sense immediately. As living beings(Agni), the idea of sustenance(Indra) leads us to look for food(Soma) to eat. This is depicted in the Vedas as Indra taking in Soma to defeat Vrtra(drought). When we talk about drought, we talk about drought in we need and we take action to balance(Indra) it out. We can translate(Agni) this to learn(Agni): If one feels stressed(drought in happiness), he/she should look for things or people they love to make them happy(balance out the drought in happiness).

[Note: if there's any word that falls under a Deity we have come across so far I will mention it in a WORD(DEITY) format to help you see the Deities in play in my language.]

So Soma can represent expendable things also. We saw it as food, we can see it as money or we can see it as time or space. Any substance that makes things happen. Well the idea "Time is Money" seems to be evident here. It depends if you want that to be the equation of your life. So let's talk about time. The biggest Soma that is given to us. It has limits(Indra) and that defines our existence(Indra). A really smart(Agni) person will try to utilize/spend this to develop himself/herself(Indra) and his/her close associates, like relations/family. You will be wasting that significant time(Soma) if you spend that on destroying another person's life because of jealousy or he/she didn't comply to your thoughts. Time as Soma with Agni as its lover, every second of that time(Soma) gets converted(Agni) by what you do. This will be evident when I get to the Maruts. And it never comes back, i.e. it can't be reused. Much like scrap material left over after production in a factory or the shit you dump in the toilet. To reuse(Indra) that you will need another converter/living thing/life(Agni) to convert that to something useful or good for consumption(Agni). Need another life? It explains the karma concept. So most of what happens in our life is to convert the bad things we did in our previous lives to good things that are useful for salvation. That happens only if you feel you have to correct the mistakes you made. So you will get shit in your next life to balance(Indra- reuse) out the shit you gave in the previous life. Now this doesn't mean that you should wait for your next life to correct your mistakes. All you need to do is realize your mistake and take the pain/shit to correct it to balance it out. When it gets balanced(Indra) out you got your new life. This is what Jesus said exactly. Repent and you will be forgiven. The repenting part is the part where you take corrective measures. It's obvious. You can't say you repented unless you have done something to correct it. The whole point of repenting is to feel the pain you caused on the other person. Same thing happens in work. You make a mistake, who takes the responsibility of correcting it. It's you. And then there are consequences which you will have to take care of as well and once the balance is made, you will not have to worry about it anymore and you can live your new life. The new life is what you get when you are forgiven.

I had to come to Soma to explain this because without this concept explained, I couldn't have explained the value of time(Soma) for life(Agni). Again here to balance(Indra) out the mistake to need to spend time(Soma) for it. Now without discussing Vishnu, I can't make further comments on this matter. Therefore my next post will be about Vishnu. Vishnu is yet another very important Vedic Deity and it is the basis of Hinduism.