There is no score in any of them. What you missed is only noticed, and noticing it is the exercise.
Its exact colour, its glow, how strong its scent is, its curve, its texture under the finger. Then all of it at once, held with the eyes closed, and looked at again.
a few minutes →2in two parts, two hours apartDo ghaṇṭe bād · two hours laterLook at one thing closely now. Two hours later, the page asks you for it from memory, and then you look again.
a few minutes, twice →3any place, this momentEk sāth · all at onceWhat you see, what you hear, what touches you: each on its own, then all three together, none of them let go.
a few minutes →4a leaf, a pencil, any paperHāth se · by handLook at a leaf, its outline, its veins, where it meets the stem. Draw it, not for skill. The hand finds what the eye passed over.
a few minutes →Where this comes from
These are Sri Aurobindo's exercises, from A System of National Education, written in 1910 about the teacher and the child. Here they are given to a grown man, because the Mother says the education of the senses “should never cease”.
The order on the screen, and the way back through what was seen, are ours. They have not been tested. We claim no result from them.
Sri Aurobindo, in A System of National Education (1910), on why the senses err. The fault, he says, is never in the organ:
In themselves the organs do their work perfectly. The eye gives the right form, the ear the correct sound, the palate the right taste, the skin the right touch, the nose the right smell.Early Cultural Writings, CWSA 1, p. 397