Searching for Soma: The Elixir of Life

​ ‘We have drunk Soma and become immortal. We have attained the light, the Gods discovered. Now what may foeman’s malice do to harm us? What, O Immortal, mortal man’s deception?’    – Ṛgveda 8. 48. 3. Translated by Ralph T.H. Griffith ​​​​In the mythological story The Churning of the Ocean of Milk the gods needed the demons (asuras) to…