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.
तदसङ्ख्येयवासनाभिश्चित्रमपि परार्थं संहत्यकारित्वात्
tad asaṅkhyeya-vāsanābhiś citram api parārthaṁ saṁhatya-kāritvāt
Though coloured by countless tendencies, the mind exists for another, because it works through combination.
Yoga Sutras 4.24 · verse 186 of 196
Unfolding the thread
The mind is a composite, made of many parts working together. Things made of parts exist for something beyond themselves, the way a house exists for the one who lives in it. The mind, however rich, exists for the Self.
Try today
Thank your mind today, as you would a good servant, for all its work. Then remember whom it serves.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“Everything exists for some end,—a horse, a vine. Why dost thou wonder? Even the sun will say, I am for some purpose.”
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