Something else to consider about the word soma. It refers to the soul body of all living things, not the physical or temporary body of the flesh. That idea was an inaccurate determination made by the mind of superstition that does not imagine the soul living prior to the physical body, and only living after the body if God decides the flesh was maintained within the order prescribed by those who have determined the definition and nature of God.

In the teachings of Advaita Vedanta or non duality, soma is the molecule which allows the interaction of the flesh with spirit. To be Christed or to have attained the Buddhi, one transcends the flesh and connects the mind physically with God the spirit, that which is immortal and beyond the flesh.
When soma is refined into Amrita immortality is realized.

I was addicted to the Hokey Pokey, but then I turned myself around!!