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.
प्रत्यक्षानुमानागमाः प्रमाणानि
pratyakṣānumānāgamāḥ pramāṇāni
Right knowing comes from direct seeing, sound reasoning, and trustworthy teaching.
Yoga Sutras 1.7 · verse 7 of 196
Unfolding the thread
How do you know what you know? Patanjali names three honest sources: what you have experienced yourself, what you can reason out from it, and what you've learned from a reliable teacher or text. Each keeps the others in check. Experience without reasoning can mislead you, and teaching you have never tested stays secondhand.
Try today
Take one belief you hold strongly and ask which of the three it rests on: seeing, reasoning, or being told?
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“The first was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such; that is to say, carefully to avoid precipitancy and prejudice.”
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