Yogic Concentration

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The power of concentration is
well known.

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It is a power that we utilize
daily to accomplish the various

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test set before us or to achieve
some goal that we have set for

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ourselves in yoga also the power
of concentration is required.

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The focus and intention behind
the concentration, is the

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primary difference between
ordinary concentration and that

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utilized by practitioners of
yoga?

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In his lectures on Raja yoga,
Swami Vivekananda.

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Devote considerable efforts to
explain concentration describing

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the processes outlined by
patanjali and how it can be

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intensified and focused and the
kind of results.

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One can obtain a systematic
process of purification

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quieting, the mind control of
the posture and the breadth and

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eventually, Directing the
concentration upon specific

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subjects or objects is outlined.
As the concentration

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intensifies, it becomes more and
more directed and extraneous

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thoughts feelings, and
perceptions drop-off.

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The result of this concentration
is to see the manifestation of

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certain cities or powers that
arise when concentration is

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focused in particular areas or
attainment of the state of

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samadhi.
SRI aurobindo provides

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additional insight to the
process of concentration.

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SRI aurobindo writes, quote
ordinarily, the Consciousness is

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spread out everywhere, dispersed
running in this, or that

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direction after this subject and
that object in multitude.

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When anything has to be done of
a sustained nature.

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The first thing one does is to
draw back all this dispersed

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Consciousness and concentrate.
It is then if one looks closely

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bound to be concentrated in one
place and on one occupation

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subject or object, as when you
are composing, a poem, or a

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botanist is studying a flower.
The place is usually somewhere

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in the brain, if it is the
thought in the heart, if it is

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the feeling in which one is
concentrated, the yoga

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concentration is simply an
extension and intensification of

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the same.
I'm thing.

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It may be on an object as when
one does tratak on a shining

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point, then one has to
concentrate.

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So that one sees only that point
and has no other thought than

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that, it may be on an idea or
word, or a name, the idea of the

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Divine, the word ohm the name,
Krishna, or a combination of

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idea, and word, or idea and
name.

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But further in yoga, one also
concentrates in a particular

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place, there is the famous rule
of concentrating between the

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eyebrows.
The center of the inner mind of

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a cult vision of the will, is
there what you do is to think

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firmly from there or whatever
you make the object of your

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concentration, or else try to
see the image of it from there.

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If you succeed in this then
after it time you feel that your

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whole Consciousness is centered
there in that place, of course,

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for the time being After doing
it for some time and often it

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becomes easy and normal.
It may be asked What Becomes of

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the rest of the Consciousness.
When there is this local

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concentration, Well, at either
fall silent as in any

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concentration or if it does not,
then thoughts are other things.

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May move about as if outside but
the concentrated part does not

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attend to them or notice.
That is when the concentration

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is reasonably successful, When
has not to fatigue oneself at

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first by long concentration.
If one is not accustomed for

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then, in a jaded mind, it loses,
its power and value one can

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relax and meditate.
Instead of concentrating, it is

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only as the concentration
becomes normal, that one can go

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on for a longer and longer time.
And quote, reference SRI

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aurobindo, and the mother
growing within the psychology of

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inner development.
Chapter 5 growth of

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Consciousness means and methods
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