The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 92 : The Gandharva - 3

🌹 The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 92 🌹

🌴 The Gandharva - 3 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📖. Prasad Bharadwaj 

🌻 The Main Gandharva 🌻

The Vedas mention four main Gandharvas. One of them is called Soma. He brings about this ineffably blissful merging of the soul with the super-soul. 

Soma is also referred to as the nectar of creation, the drink of immortality. This is a secretion from seeming nothingness into apparent something. Soma governs the cosmic principle of reflection. 

Astrologically, Soma functions in its lower aspect through the Moon and in its higher aspect through Neptune; they are centres of distribution for his vibrations. 

Through a reflection of his activity Soma generates magnetic currents which produce the ebb and tide in the etheric and the astral currents as well as in the waters of the earth. His influence via the moon creates the fertilisation of the ovum in the female womb. 

His vibration also enables the unfoldment of soul awareness so that we can receive wisdom through higher impression.

Another name for Soma is Lord Shiva. We know his symbol as the dancing Lord creating one universe after the other in a perpetual dance. 

In the Vedic rites the Soma sacrifice is described as drinking the juice of a plant which enables us to taste the juice of our own existence by consecrating ourselves to Indra. 

In Ayurveda the juice of the Soma plant (Ephedra Vulgaris) is used to prolong the span of life. Drinking this juice is an exoteric ritual to explain an esoteric truth. 

Thus, it says in the Rig Veda, “When someone squeezes the Soma herb, he thinks he has drunk the Soma. Whom the initiates know as Soma, no one (except the initiate) ever tastes“.

In the human body the seat of Soma is located in the gap between the pineal gland and the pituitary gland. When Soma is pleased, he emits a secretion from this centre in the head of a Yogi which enables musing of the soul with the universal soul.

In the Vedas, Soma is also known as the Lord of aesthetic sense and romance. Together with the Gandharva Kama he produces the sexual attraction and makes the bride and the bridegroom shine in youthful splendour before the marriage. In the Indian marriage ritual this Gandharva is invoked so that the couple experiences bliss during the marriage sacrament.

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: Occult Meditations / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Book of Rituals.

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