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Our one objective must be the Divine himself to whom, knowingly or unknowingly, something always aspires in our secret nature. There must be a large, many-sided yet single concentration of the thought on the idea, the perception, the vision, the awakening touch, the soul's realisation of the one Divine. There must be a flaming concentration of the heart on the All and Eternal and, when once we have found him, a deep plunging and immersion in the possession and ecstasy of the All- Beautiful. There must be a strong and immovable concentration of the will on the attainment and fulfilment of all that the Divine is and a free and plastic opening of it to all that he intends to manifest in us. <ref> Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust. (1999). Self-consecration (Section: The Yoga of Divine Works). In The Synthesis of Yoga I. Retrieved from http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/20/self-consecration </ref>
=Purpose of concentration=
Concentration is necessary. By dhyana you awake the inner being; by concentration in life, in work, in the outer consciousness you make the outer being also fit to receive the Divine Light and Force.
<ref>Sri Aurobindo. cwsa/29/concentration-and-meditation</ref>
=Concentration by effort=
It is true that to be concentrated and do an outward action at the same time is not at first possible. But that too becomes possible. Either the consciousness divides into two parts, one the inner poised in the Divine, the other the outer doing the outer work—or else the whole is so poised and the force does the work through the passive instrument.
<ref>Sri Aurobindo. sabcl/23/sadhana-through-meditation-i</ref>