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.
ततः प्रातिभश्रावणवेदनादर्शास्वादवार्ता जायन्ते
tataḥ prātibha-śrāvaṇa-vedanādarśāsvāda-vārtā jāyante
From this arise intuitive hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell.
Yoga Sutras 3.37 · verse 143 of 196
Unfolding the thread
As the Self is known, the senses themselves become more refined: hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell of a subtler, intuitive kind. The world becomes vivid in a new way.
Try today
Take one ordinary sensory moment today (tea, birdsong, a hand on wood) and notice it more finely than you usually would.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“It is played without fingers, it is heard without ears: for He is the ear, and He is the listener.”
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