1. Inspiration and expiration; 2. Twinkling of the eye; 3. Sign and symptoms of living life; 4. Ability to mentally teleport oneself (e.g. arriving at a distant place like Pataliputra in imagination or dream);
5. Shift from one object of sense organ to another (e.g. shift from visual perception to tactile perception); 6. Inspiration and controlling mind and indriyas 7. Journey to another country in dreams;
यस्मात् समुपलभ्यन्ते लिङ्गान्येतानि जीवतः| न मृतस्यात्मलिङ्गानि तस्मादाहुर्महर्षयः ||७३||
8. Anticipation of death; 9. Knowledge of something visualized in right eye by the left eye; 10. Desire, envy, happiness, misery, effort, consciousness, stability, intellect, memory and ego.
शरीरं हि गते तस्मिञ् शून्यागारमचेतनम्| पञ्चभूतावशेषत्वात् पञ्चत्वं गतमुच्यते ||७४||
All these are signs of a living person. These signs are not available in a dead body. So, they are considered to be proof of existence of the soul till the living life. When that soul, with all its associates (indriyas, manas and four subtle mahabhutas) departs, the body becomes vacant and is deprived of consciousness. Only the five mahabhutas remain. So, a dead body is said to have attained the state of five mahabhutas (panchtatva)