But that may mean that until such conditioning life force will not be able to be held by matter. Or life may be in gross form in the inanimate things and gradually transform into living form when the matter gets conditioned to hold it. Life is equated with prana in Sanskrit. Prana is a kind of air or vayu . Along with other kinds of air namely apana , samana , udana , vyana , naga , kurma , krakara , devadatta and dhananjaya , it resides in the human body.
Life is between the first and the last breath.
Thus the life force is the kind of air which enters the body and makes it living. Therefore the body or shareera which is parthiva or made of earth and also water becomes living on the application of air. Thus the body is of earth, water and air and can exist only under certain condition of heat or temperature accounting for the four bhutas of the Pancamahabhutas . That means that one kind of air exists in the dead or non-living body also. This indicates that the life force exists in different form from the non-living to the living in more than one form.