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.
स्वाध्यायादिष्टदेवतासंप्रयोगः
svādhyāyād iṣṭa-devatā-saṁprayogaḥ
Through self-study comes communion with one's chosen ideal of the divine.
Yoga Sutras 2.44 · verse 95 of 196
Unfolding the thread
Svādhyāya is study of oneself and of sacred words. Patanjali promises that it leads to meeting your iṣṭa-devatā: the form of the divine, or the ideal, that speaks to you personally. Reading and reflecting, day after day, becomes a conversation.
Try today
Read one short passage that moves you, slowly, twice. Then sit with it for a minute.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”
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