Control of the Prana in Ayurveda

Prana is a force, the life force, the vital force and it is five sub forces. Each of them perform different physiological functions in this body. Shankaracharya uses an old Sankean principle to explain how we live or die. All compound things exist for the sake of something apart from them. The very experience of living which we have all of us right now isn't really due to prana but to consciousness.