 According to this orientalizing view, the perispirit had the function of modelling the physical body ("soma" [in Greek; "deha" in Sanskrit]) after the design determined by the karma, with each chakra linking itself to a gland and to the nervous system.This perispirit would use the chakras to command the body and to receive sensorial impressions from it.In Mandaic soteriology, the soul of the dead, upon entering the House of Life, "receives a garment and a wreath."