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.
तासामनादित्वं चाशिषो नित्यत्वात्
tāsām anāditvaṁ cāśiṣo nityatvāt
These tendencies have no beginning, because the longing to live is eternal.
Yoga Sutras 4.10 · verse 172 of 196
Unfolding the thread
Where did our tendencies start? Patanjali says they have no beginning, because the wish to exist, to go on, has always been there. Wanting is as old as life itself. That's not a cause for despair; it's why patience with ourselves is wise.
Try today
Notice today how strongly you want to continue: to finish things, to be here tomorrow. Honour that longing.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“Looking for the maker of this tabernacle, I shall have to run through a course of many births, so long as I do not find (him); and painful is birth again and again.”
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