ऊपर देखो · Look up
Wonder at its full size. The training is not to shrink it to something known. It is to look up into it.
If something yellow is near you, a thread or a cloth, tie it on your wrist. Yellow is Bharata's colour for adbhuta. Or begin as you are.
First the body, later the voice, later still only inside. Any of them, any time; nothing is locked.
The sky was there the whole time, wider than it looked.
Every road ends at śānta, the centre. That road is there for another time.
Why this
Bharata shows a feeling in four ways, the four abhinayas: by the body (āṅgika), by the voice (vācika), by what is worn (āhārya) and from within (sāttvika) (Abhinayadarpaṇa 38; Ghosh 1957). This practice goes through them from the outside in.
Bharata's glance of wonder has the eyes raised and widened to their ends (VIII.48), and his glance of astonishment is fully open, the eyelids still (VIII.60). Among the signs of wonder he lists eyes opened wide, a fixed gaze, and the sound ha, ha (the prose before VI.75, and VI.76). So the body looks up, the voice lets the sound out, and the last door keeps the eyes wide and still.
In the Bhāgavata, Yaśodā looked into the child's mouth and saw the whole universe in it, and Vraja, and herself, and was afraid as well as amazed (10.8.37 to 39). Wonder can come with fear; it is still wonder.
Adbhuta in Bharata is quick (XIX.58 to 59), its colour yellow (VI.42 to 43), its deity Brahmā (VI.44 to 45), its notes ṣaḍja and ṛṣabha: each star opens on Sa and Ri. It arises from vīra (VI.39).
There is no timer and no count. How loud counts as a sound is ours. Nothing you do here is kept or sent.