Page 51 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

Commandment - 1
Rise before dawn. Offer your prayer and puja at a fixed hour preferably before sunrise, sitting in one and the same pose. Have a separate place and seat for worship. Purity of mind and body should be specially adhered to.
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The importance of getting up at the time before sunrise for our daily duties has been long recognized. Indeed the last two hours of the night preceding the day-break or sunrise has been called Brahmi - Muhurta. It is literally the hour of Brahma, the creator of the universe. It is well known that all creative work starts with the dawn. Vedadhyayana, music and other learning of fundamental sciences are counselled about this hour. The day for the Pancaratra agama begins with the hour of abhigamana or moving about.
The first commandment accordingly states that one should rise before dawn or sunrise. Master Ram Chandraji Maharaj gives another reason. This is to reveal the correspondence between the creative period of the entire universe and our own times as calculated from the movement of the earth round the sun or diurnal rotation of the earth or the monthly movement of the moon round the earth.
At the beginning it must be presumed that only the transcendent beyond all thought existed. Obviously such an existence is completely different from what we call existence because all this arises from that through the act of original thought. This thought also must be considered to be different from all our thought but that it is the power of manifestation or energy of projection or manifestation. This is the most powerful force or energy from which all creative processes proceed. This thought, having arisen, comes into contact with energy particles which are of the subtlest nature in the