First Light
How First Light worksTuesday 27 October·
- Sunrise
- 07:55
- Quiet hour
- 06:19–07:07
- Brahma Muhurta
- Moon
- Waning gibbous
- Next full moon: Tue 24 Nov
Autumn
The quiet hour (Brahma Muhurta) is the traditional time for practice, just before sunrise.
श्रुतानुमानप्रज्ञाभ्यामन्यविषया विशेषार्थत्वात्
śrutānumāna-prajñābhyām anya-viṣayā viśeṣārthatvāt
This insight is different from what is learned or inferred, because it knows the particular directly.
Yoga Sutras 1.49 · verse 49 of 196
Unfolding the thread
Reading and reasoning deal in general truths. This insight is of another kind: it grasps the thing itself, directly and particularly. That's why a person can know a lot about meditation and not know meditation, and why the Sutras keep insisting on practice.
Try today
Choose one thing you "know about" but haven't tried, and spend five minutes actually doing it today.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“I have learned the Sanskrit language, so let all men call me wise: But where is the use of this, when I am floating adrift, and parched with thirst.”
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