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Prāṇāyu - The Story

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Prāṇāyu organisation story 1

Etymology 2

Prāṇāyu science historical references 2

 

Prāṇāyu organisation story

Prāṇāyu is a humanitarian non-profit organization recognized by the Indian government and the French Government. Prāṇāyu is independent of all economic, political, and religious associations.

Prāṇāyu is mobilized for the protection of life and health encompassing knowledge, traditions, primitive ecosystem and forests, biodiversity, agrodiversity, most effective medical sciences, education and transmissions, and all that sustains the most fertile future for all living being.

The seed of the Pranayu initiatives have been inherited from the millenary medical and yoga traditions from Āyurveda and Prāṇāvāya, emerging from infinite compassion from our humanitarian forefathers and from the Life force itself.

The contemporary seed of the Pranayu enerprises started to sprout, thanks to the support and the work of the various associations, universities, researchers, professors, scientists, farmers, social workers, in France and in India, thanks to the members of the Sādhanā association, and thanks to the scientific knowledge shared with the founder Dr. Noémie Delagrange.

 

This Prāṇāyu seed is now growing on the ancestral forest of ancestral of the mostly in the Sahyadri primary forest of Karnataka. From there, Prāṇāyu has also strong interaction with the Sādhana Āyurvedic NGO French clinic of Bordeaux and its numerous team, students and patients as well as with its family members of Shoolapeshvar wild life sanctuary of Gujarāt.

Thus Sahyādrī forest, shelters Prāṇāyu head quater in a land call Ahiṃsādama Kṣamāśrama. This ancestral forest world most precious patrimony is the land of holy fauna and flora species, Ādivāsīs, yogī-s, rishi-s and overall combination humanity key history and future.

 

Since 2009, several people have joined hands with us in sharing the ambition to carry out solidarity projects and Prāṇāyu officially came into being in 2018 marking stronger growth in all its actions.

Prāṇāyu is the union of two Sanskrit words: prāṇa (essence, force) and āyu (life) and can be understood as the essence of the original Life force. Inspired by a synonymous word Prāṇāvāya, both are archetypes of Ahiṃsā-āyurveda - the Life science based on non-violence.

See the Prāṇāvāya Vidyā Action

 

Prāṇāyu enables empowerment, health, and sustainable development through effective, simple, and non-violent means by ensuring the transfer of agro-ecological and medicinal knowledge (Āyurveda).

See the Prāṇāyu-Svāstha Action

 

Prāṇāyu is mobilized for the protection of biodiversity, agrodiversity, the balance of ecosystems, and all the conditions essential to human health and life. It works to promote food security that involves:

• Availability of processing food products

• Economic and geographical accessibility of food

• Optimization of micro nutritional intake to ensure food quality

• Enduring stability of the three preceding objectives

It endeavours to save and safeguard human lives, rare and unknown species of seeds, resources, ecosystems, biodiversity, and knowledge that promotes Life. It ensures rigorous ecology practices: sustainable development, biodiversity conservation, and preservation of seeds with nutritional and therapeutic properties.

See the Jīvabīva Action

 

Prāṇāyu is invested in fighting malnutrition (quantitative deficiency) and micro-nutritional inadequacy (qualitative deficiency) for the vulnerable segment of population of India. It helps the people from this segment recover and develop sustainable livelihoods by equipping them with the means to provide for themselves.

See the Ādivāsī Ahiṃsā Paramparā Action

“Life” as we understand it is rapidly shrinking into extinctioṇ. Enagaged in reforestation Actions to preserve earth’s fragile biodoversity with the help of indigenous tribes -Ādivāsīs and local communitieṣ, Pranayu is seeking support and help to create more awareness campaigns.

See the Vanasprajñā Action

 

Passionately involved with child protection and education, Prāṇāyu is involved in opening an ayurvedic gurukula hostel and orphanage. It sees child development as a delicate and privileged responsibility that encompasses a holistic contemplation on physical, mental, and ethical health.

See the Vatsa Gurukūlam Action

 

Etymology

Prāṇāyu is the union of two Sanskrit root words: prāṇa and āyu.

Prāṇa reflects all these words: vital force, vital breath, breath, energy, vigour, original essence, nature, soul, spirit, wind, power, ability, value, strength, potential, gift, efficiency.

Āyu reflects all these words: life, liveliness, being alive, creature, longevity, health, life force, vigour, lineage, food, nourishment.

Prāṇāyu, for example, can be interpreted as the essence of original life force. And it embodies this through means of ahimsā (non-violence) as means and goal.

Sanskrit also called Devabhāṣa (language of the Gods) is the ancestral language of India whose first texts date back to c. 2 millennium BCE.

 

Prāṇāyu science historical references

Prāṇāyu is also the name of a dissertation on medical and biological sciences that has sadly been lost but is referred in many manuscripts that are available today.

The name of 12th Pūrva, Prāṇa-pravāda-pūrva, Prāṇāvāya-pūrva, Prāṇāyupūrva is an attestation of the word Prāṇāyu.

According to many historians, this tradition is the work of a people that are the direct heir of the civilization of the Indus Valley (IVC) whose archaeological traces date back to the dawn of the Neolithic era or the transition to sedentary agriculture (70TH century BCE that is circa 7000 BCE or more that 9000 year from now).

See the article on the history of the Āyurveda, prāṇāyu science and prāṇāvāya

 

The civilization depository of this science contributed different schools of thought: Śramaṇa (equanimity, listening), Yoga-Mārga (yoga path), Mānava-dharma, Mārga (way), Ṛṣabha-dharma (philosophy of Ṛṣabha), Vrātya (those born from spiritual vows), Ahiṃsā-dharma (philosophy of ethic and non-violence), Arhat (meritorious), Ᾱtma-dharma (philosophy of the deep self), Nirgraṇṭha (without attachments), Gymnosophist (naked ascetics) , Jaina-dharma (philosophy of the victorious), Anekanta-Mata (multi angular thinking), Syādvāda-Mata (thought with multiple potentialities).

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"Prāṇāyu is an association humanitarian, of general interest, for the protection of biodiversity, agrodiversity, the balance of ecosystems, all practices and essential knowledge for the human health and to Life".