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.
जातिदेशकालव्यवहितानामप्यानन्तर्यं स्मृतिसंस्कारयोरेकरूपत्वात्
jāti-deśa-kāla-vyavahitānām apy ānantaryaṁ smṛti-saṁskārayor eka-rūpatvāt
Because memory and deep impressions are of one form, there is continuity even when separated by birth, place and time.
Yoga Sutras 4.9 · verse 171 of 196
Unfolding the thread
Memory and latent impressions are the same stuff. That's why a habit can lie dormant for years, even, the tradition says, across lifetimes, and then return exactly as it was. What we store, we keep.
Try today
Notice one memory that shaped a habit. Is the habit still serving you?
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.”
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