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.
कायरूपसंयमात्तद्ग्राह्यशक्तिस्तम्भे चक्षुःप्रकाशासंप्रयोगेऽन्तर्धानम्
kāya-rūpa-saṁyamāt tad-grāhya-śakti-stambhe cakṣuḥ-prakāśāsaṁprayoge 'ntardhānam
Through saṁyama on the body's form, its visibility is suspended; light no longer connects it with the eye, and one becomes invisible.
Yoga Sutras 3.21 · verse 127 of 196
Unfolding the thread
The traditional claim is invisibility: withdraw the body's form from perception and you can't be seen. Whatever you make of it, there's a humbler version everyone can practise: not needing to be seen. The one who seeks no attention moves freely.
Try today
Do one good thing today that no one will ever know was you.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.”
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