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.
परिणामैकत्वाद्वस्तुतत्त्वम्
pariṇāmaikatvād vastu-tattvam
Because their transformations are unified, an object is a single reality.
Yoga Sutras 4.14 · verse 176 of 196
Unfolding the thread
An object is always changing, yet we experience it as one thing. Patanjali says that's because its changes happen as a unity, and that unity is what makes it real. The world isn't chaos; it hangs together.
Try today
Look at one familiar object and consider how it has changed, and how it is still, somehow, the same thing.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“Things spiritual division, number, parts, know not, They split not into fractions, form no separate lot.”
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