Yudhishthira said : Tell me, O Serpent, truly and without hurry how the spirit (parted from the corporeal frame) becomes cognisant of sound, touch, form, smell and taste.
युधिष्ठिर उवाच शब्दे स्पर्श च रूपे च तथैव रसगन्धयोः। तस्याधिष्ठानमव्यचो ब्रूहि सर्प यथातथम्॥