SO-MA -n- Hindu,
A fruit based intoxicating or hallucinogenic beverage used as an offering to the gods and consumed by participants in ancient celebratory rituals.

SO-MA -n- Greek,
body as distinct from mind: the body considered separately from the mind or soul. A shell or empty vessel.

What is a restaurant?
Does it have a soul? Does it have a life of its own? A restaurant is four walls, a floor, and a ceiling. If you are the first one there, or the last to leave it is a cold, dark place. It comes to life when its soul arrives. Its soul is us, the human element. We fill the room with life, with the food we cook, the drinks we create, the music we play, and the friends and family we dine with. What is a body without its soul?

"If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution-then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise."

--ALDOUS HUXLEY,
describing Soma from A BRAVE NEW WORLD