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It
is by the thought that we dissipate ourselves in the phenomenal;
it is by the gathering back of the thought into itself that we
must draw ourselves back into the real. Concentration has three
powers by which this aim can be effected. By concentration on
anything whatsoever we are able to know that thing, to make it
deliver up its concealed secrets; we must use
this power to know not things, but the one Thing-in-itself.....more>> |
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One
can concentrate in any of the three centres which is easiest to
the sadhak or gives most result.
The power of the concentration in the heart-centre is to open that
centre and by the power of aspiration, love, bhakti, surrender
remove the veil which covers and conceals the soul and bring forward
the soul or psychic being to govern the mind, life and body and
turn and open them all fully to the Divine, removing all that is
opposed to that turning and opening...more>> |
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There is a way of
reducing the time necessary for doing things by increasing the
concentration considerably. Some people can't do this for long,
it tires them; but it's like weight-Iifting, isn't it, one can
get accustomed to it. And then, if you can succeed in mastering
this power of concentration and in making your mind absolutely
still- for this indeed is the first condition -and if in this
quietude you concentrate it, concentrate, concentrate, concentrate
on the point you want to make, on the work you have to do ...more>> |
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