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Concentration is the essence of all knowledge and with it we can control our thoughts and senses rather than being controlled by them. The Greeks used concentration externally in their art while Hindus focused internally in practices like yoga. Yoga involves controlling the senses, will, and mind through techniques like posture, breath control, meditation, and contemplation in order to realize God and go beyond the senses to the eternal. Reaching the superconscious state through yoga requires constant practice, purity, and non-attachment to the world and results in freedom and immortality as the feeling of body melts away.

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Concentration PDF

Concentration is the essence of all knowledge and with it we can control our thoughts and senses rather than being controlled by them. The Greeks used concentration externally in their art while Hindus focused internally in practices like yoga. Yoga involves controlling the senses, will, and mind through techniques like posture, breath control, meditation, and contemplation in order to realize God and go beyond the senses to the eternal. Reaching the superconscious state through yoga requires constant practice, purity, and non-attachment to the world and results in freedom and immortality as the feeling of body melts away.

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Concentration is the essence of all knowledge, nothing can be done without it.

Ninety per cent


of thought force is wasted by the ordinary human being, and therefore he is constantly
committing blunders; the trained man or mind never makes a mistake. When the mind is
concentrated and turned backward on itself, all within us will be our servants, not our masters.
The Greeks applied their concentration to the external world, and the result was perfection in
art, literature, etc. The Hindu concentrated on the internal world, upon the unseen realms in
the Self, and developed the science of Yoga. Yoga is controlling the senses, will and mind. The
benefit of its study is that we learn to control instead of being controlled. Mind seems to be
layer on layer. Our real goal is to cross all these intervening strata of our being and find God.
The end and aim of Yoga is to realise God. To do this we must go beyond relative knowledge,
go beyond the sense-world. The world is awake to the senses, the children of the Lord are
asleep on that plane. The world is asleep to the Eternal, the children of the Lord are awake in
that realm. These are the sons of God. There is but one way to control the senses — to see
Him who is the Reality in the universe. Then and only then can we really conquer our senses.

Concentration is restraining the mind into smaller and smaller limits. There are eight processes
for thus restraining the mind. The first is Yama, controlling the mind by avoiding externals. All
morality is included in this. Beget no evil. Injure no living creature. If you injure nothing for
twelve years, then even lions and tigers will go down before you. Practise truthfulness. Twelve
years of absolute truthfulness in thought, word, and deed gives a man what he wills. Be chaste
in thought, word, and action. Chastity is the basis of all religions. Personal purity is imperative.
Next is Niyama, not allowing the mind to wander in any direction. Then Âsana, posture. There
are eighty-four postures: but the best is that most natural to each one; that is, which can be
kept longest with the greatest ease. After this comes Prânâyâma, restraint of breath. Then
Pratyâhâra, drawing in of the organs from their objects. Then Dhâranâ, concentration. Then
Dhyâna, contemplation or meditation. (This is the kernel of the Yoga system.) And last,
Samâdhi, superconsciousness. The purer the body and mind, the quicker the desired result will
be obtained. You must be perfectly pure. Do not think of evil things, such thoughts will surely
drag you down. If you are perfectly pure and practice faithfully, your mind can finally be made
a searchlight of infinite power. There is no limit to its scope. But there must be constant
practice and non-attachment to the world. When a man reaches the superconscious state, all
feeling of body melts away. Then alone does he become free and immortal. To all external
appearance, unconsciousness and superconsciousness are the same; but they differ as a lump
of clay from a lump of gold. The one whose whole soul is given up to God has reached the
superconscious plane.

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