Tips for Optimizing Concentration

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Substance rules over form.
This concept is well known in

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legal circles, when Equity
between parties is an issue.

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It also is obviously, an
important thing to remember in

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any field of life, but most,
especially in the practice of

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yoga SRI aurobindo illustrates
this concept with several

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specific examples.
Most people want to follow a set

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of specific rules to Succeed In
Yoga.

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They are trained on how exactly
to seat themselves.

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What exact breathing technique
to utilize the exact manner of

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in toning.
The Mantra the timing of their

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practice and even where to focus
their concentration, they are

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advised to focus.
For example, between The

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eyebrows or at the tip of the
nose or in the heart, they

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believe that.
If they can carry out these

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external forms precisely, they
will achieve realization SRI

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aurobindo, brings added Clarity
to this subject while the form

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of the word or Mantra.
Maybe important, it is more

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important to dwell on the
deeper, meaning of the term so

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that it is not simply a wrote
mechanical repetition.

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Even one undertakes but a full
immersion in the meaning.

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Similarly, the question of where
to focus, the concentration is

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not related to a nearsighted
attention to specific bodily

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areas but refers to where the
Consciousness is seated during

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the process of concentration or
meditation.

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It is not the space between the
eyebrows that must be focused

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on.
But rather the Divine intention

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In which is the object of the
concentration while the

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awareness seats itself in the
specific location.

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SRI aurobindo observes quote, if
one concentrates on a thought or

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word one has to dwell on the
essential idea contained in the

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word with the aspiration to feel
the thing, which it expresses.

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There's no harm in
concentrating, sometimes in the

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heart and sometimes above the
head, but concentration in

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either place does not mean
keeping the attention.

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Fixed on a particular spot, you
have to take your station of

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Consciousness in either place
and concentrate.

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They're not on the place but on
the Divine, this can be done

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with eyes shut or with eyes open
according as Best suits you in

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code, reference SRI aurobindo
and the mother growing within

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the psychology of inner
development.

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Chapter 5 growth of
Consciousness means and methods

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Pages, 91, and 92,