[1][unreliable fringe source] This knowledge is meant to be communicated by the teacher to the disciple, by father to the son – who is worthy and inwardly ready.
[3] In the Rig Veda, Soma, the Vedic symbol for deep spiritual truth, is addressed as Madhu, the nectar or ambrosia, the drink of Immortality sought by both gods and men.
Rishi Vamadeva has described how the saving of the knowledge of Madhu or Soma Doctrine came to him through a hawk in a sudden flash in his darkest hour.
[4] It is believed that Rishi Dadhichi had his ashrama in Dudheshwara on the banks of Sabarmati River near present-day Ahmedabad.
From that which was heated up issued the juice in the form of fame, lustre, vigours of organs, strength, and eatable food.
Thus, he begins narrating the scheme of colours – red, white and black which are the different colours of the sun, and concludes that the Vedas indeed are the nectars.`[8] Madhu-vidya occupies a unique place in the Upanishadic scheme of upasana, due to its supremely hidden significance and peculiarly mystic presentation.
The effects that flow are not mere imaginary things but are actualities that become visualised; every effect takes shape in a particular form or colour which signifies its concretisation and completion but the essence or the honey has no particular form or colour because it happens to be beyond all manifestations; it is recognized by the heaving at the centre of the Sun.
[9] Madhu-vidya establishes the following five truths:- Chandogya Upanishad (III.i.1) begins teaching Madhu Vidya by stating – The Sun is verily honey to the Devas (Vasus, Rudras, Adityas, Maruts and Sadhyas), the Heaven is like the cross-beam, the intermediate region is the beehive; and the rays are the sons.