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.
क्लेशमूलः कर्माशयो दृष्टादृष्टजन्मवेदनीयः
kleśa-mūlaḥ karmāśayo dṛṣṭādṛṣṭa-janma-vedanīyaḥ
Our store of past actions is rooted in these causes, and is felt in this life or in lives not yet seen.
Yoga Sutras 2.12 · verse 63 of 196
Unfolding the thread
Karma simply means action, and every action leaves a trace. Patanjali says our store of traces grows from the root causes of suffering, and its results arrive sooner or later: in this life, or (as the tradition holds) in others. Whatever you believe about other lives, the principle is familiar. What we do shapes what we meet.
Try today
Choose one action today purely for the kind of trace you'd like it to leave.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
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