1 In Search Of SOMA- An Elixir for Immortality of Soul Bipin Shah 10/10/2010, 5/25/2020Rev, 7/26/2023 Rev Abstract: Soma, the Elixir drink of Proto-Indo-Iranians (or “Arya” people) is recalled in over 114 hymns of Rig Veda. Sūkta 8 and 9 of Rigveda are devoted to Soma and related libation rituals to various primordial deities. Similarly, Persian Avesta refers to the same drink as “Hoama” (“S” of Sanskrit switched “H” of Persian). For Persian Magis who were the fire worshipper and magicians, Hoama became a ritual Elixir for God Ahur Mazda. Vedic Aryans offered that to their deities before consuming themselves after libation. The ninth Mandala (Sūkta 9) of Rigveda is devoted in its entirety to “Soma Pavamana”, a brew made from an unspecified botanical species. Since Rig Veda was composed very early in history and collated in stages, the various segments of Rig Veda's composition cannot be easily dated due to its archaic construction. The one related to SOMA is considered one of the oldest. It certainly has Proto-Indo-Iranian features in more than one way. Similar rituals were performed by other Proto- Indo-European tribes in antiquity. Due to unknown climatic upheavals, these tribes split from their ancestorial home assumed to be somewhere in east Asian steppe regions or Caucasus, and started migrating west and south. Avesta, a junior Persian sister text has preserved the memories and describes the condition of living under ten months of harsh winter and two months of moderate climate in their homeland. The appearance of sunlight was the bare minimum. Recent archeological remains of Mammoths found in Siberia suggest that the climate in the early history of the planet in the polar region was considerably warmer than what it is today. We find similar libation rituals to spirits and deities observed in Norse, Celtic, and Irish-Druid cultures of the West. We also discovered that earlier Mongolian-Hunnic tribes of the eastern steppe also practiced similar rituals. The archeological discovery of a Hunnic noblewoman with embroidered cloth depicts a picture of a Mushroom. That allowed some to suggest that this mushroom was ancient SOMA. All these groups have followed a similar ritual of libation and offerings to deities. Historians have labeled this practice performed by tribal priests as ancient shamanism. Although Soma is presented in Veda and Avesta as the “drink of immortality”, it should be understood in a way the seers and sages of the past had understood. The belief that the Soul of living beings is immortal and can be saved by achieving freedom from repeated rebirths or afterlife existence was understood by the seers and sages of antiquity. Soma or her local variants were considered the mediating agents that aroused bliss to the highest order and allowed the consciousness to realize that the soul can be freed from the mortal body to achieve the highest form of spiritual awakening. The meditation and chanting techniques are assumed to be facilitators. Kundalini yoga meditation is also a technique that was a part of the yoga routine that shramnas and seers practiced in the ancient period. This exercise is meant to move energy throughout the body. It is based on the concept that energy resides at the base of the spine (also known as the root chakra) and needs to be released through the seven chakras of the body and then out through the crown chakra above the head to achieve heightened consciousness or bliss. Once it is achieved, one can get a sneak preview of the universe, and time is no longer a hindrance. The Seers and Sages can see through past, present, and future and thereby liberating the soul from the mortal body to achieve immortality. This sounds like “time travel fantasy”, but that was the beliefs and utterances of the