Answer:
What tastes better than it smells?
You can tumble in it, roll in it, burn it, animal eat it. Used to cover floors, still used beyond stall doors. Freshens whatever it is placed on. Absorbs whatever is poured into it.
I crawl on the earth. And rise on a pillar.
What is it that makes tears without sorrow and takes its journey to heaven?
What is often returned but is never borrowed?
They are many and one, they wave and they drum, Used to cover a state, they go with you everywhere.