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.
समाधिसिद्धिरीश्वरप्रणिधानात्
samādhi-siddhir īśvara-praṇidhānāt
Through surrender to the divine, absorption is perfected.
Yoga Sutras 2.45 · verse 96 of 196
Unfolding the thread
The last observance is also the most powerful. Offering yourself completely (your effort, your results, your very sense of being the doer) opens the door to samādhi. Where willpower strains, surrender simply arrives.
Try today
Before one task today, say inwardly: "Not for me, but through me."
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“Thou awakest us to delight in Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.”
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