Śivasaṃhitā 5.192

«Drinking the distilling nectar» (galita-pīyūṣa-pāna) is the physical practice of viparīta-karaṇī and khecarī-mudrā: reversing the descending flow of soma/amṛta so consciousness absorbs it before digestive fire consumes it. This nectar is literal in the tantric system: the glandular dimension of spiritual experience.

Galita = flowing/dripping (gal = to fall drop by drop), pīyūṣa = nectar of the gods, pibeta = should drink, nirantaram = without interruption. Instructions on japa rhythm (neither too fast nor too slow) reflect the understanding that mantra has an optimal speed that synchronizes with prāṇa’s rhythm.

The ancient Vedic soma tradition finds its inner equivalent in this verse: what the Ṛgveda priests sought in a ritual plant’s juice, the tantric yogi discovers within. The sahasrāra’s soma is the distillation of all practice: when kuṇḍalinī reaches the crown, the nectar flows that the Vedic texts described mythologically. The circle closes.