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.
क्षणतत्क्रमयोः संयमाद्विवेकजं ज्ञानम्
kṣaṇa-tat-kramayoḥ saṁyamād vivekajaṁ jñānam
Through saṁyama on the moment and its sequence comes knowledge born of discernment.
Yoga Sutras 3.53 · verse 159 of 196
Unfolding the thread
Time, Patanjali suggests, is made of moments in sequence. Attend closely to the single moment, and to how one moment follows another, and a special knowledge is born: the discernment that sees things as they truly are.
Try today
Three times today, stop and notice this exact moment: what you see, hear and feel, nothing else.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“The Mystic true relieves each moment’s need; “To-morrow” ’s not a point in his pure creed.”
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