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Read more about '''[[Concentration Compilation|Concentration]]''' from the works of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.
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<h1>Concentration Summary</h1> {|class="wikitable" style= "background-color: #efefff; width: 100%;"|== What is concentration Concentration ==
Concentration means gathering of all the scattered movements of consciousness into a single point, place, object, thought, idea, condition, state or movement. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/appendix-to-questions-and-answers-1929#p9</ref> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/23-december-1950#p7</ref> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/concentration-and-meditation#p3 </ref>
Concentration is an active state. You One may concentrate mentally, you one may concentrate vitally, psychically, physically, and you one may concentrate integrally. Concentration or the capacity to gather oneself at one point is more difficult than meditation. You One may gather together one portion of your one's being or consciousness or you one may gather together the whole of your one's consciousness or even fragments of it, that is, the concentration may be partial, total or integral, and in each case the result will be different. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/25-december-1950#p12</ref>
Concentration is not only an intellectual thing, it may be found in all the activities of the being, including bodily activities. The control over the nerves should be such as would allow you one a complete concentration on what you are one is doing and, through the very intensity of your one's concentration, you acquire one acquires an immediate response to external touches. To attain this concentration you need one needs a conscious control of the energies. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/23-december-1950#p1 </ref>
== Why ConcentrateConcentration is Important?==
Without concentration one cannot achieve anything. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/study#p71</ref>
There is nothing in the human or even in the superhuman field, to which the power of concentration is not the key. One can be the best athlete, one can be the best student, one can be an artistic, literary or scientific genius, one can be the greatest saint with that faculty. And everyone has in himself a tiny little beginning of it—it is given to everybody, but people do not cultivate it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/23-july-1958#p18 </ref>
The ability of concentration is one of the greatest powers of the human mentality. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-divine-and-the-undivine#p16</ref> Whatever one may want to do in life, one thing is absolutely indispensable and at the basis of everything, the capacity of concentrating the attention. If one is able to gather together the rays of attention and consciousness on one point and can maintain this concentration with a persistent will, nothing can resist it—whatever it may be, from the most material physical development to the highest spiritual one. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/23-july-1958#p15</ref>
The mind is a thing that dwells in diffusion, in succession; it can only concentrate on one thing at a time and when not concentrated runs from one thing to another very much at random. Therefore it has to concentrate on a single idea, a single subject of meditation, a single object of contemplation, a single object of will in order to possess or master it, and this it must do to at least the temporary exclusion of all others. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/concentration#p7</ref>
=== Three Powers of Concentration === 1. By concentration on anything whatsoever, we are able to know that thing. 2. By concentration, the whole will can be gathered up for the acquisition of any object whatsoever. 3. By concentration of our whole being on one status of itself, we can become whatever we choose. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/concentration#p2 </ref> == How to Concentrate Cultivate Concentration? ==
The faculty of concentrated attention can be developed scientifically by a methodical training the same way as an athlete develops methodically his muscles. The power of concentration can be developed in such a way that concentration is obtained at will and on whatever subject or activity is chosen. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/concentration-and-dispersion#p5 </ref>
When one has a problem and one is looking for a solution, if it does not come, it is because of a kind of haziness in the brain, something cloudy, like a fog somewhere. Concentration consists precisely in removing the cloud. You One can gather together all the elements of your one's intelligence and fix them on one point, and then you do not even try actively to find the thing. All that you one should do is to concentrate in such a way as to see only the problem—but seeing not only its surface, seeing it in its depth, what it conceals. If you are one is able to gather together one's all your mental energies, bringing them to a point which is fixed on the enunciation of the problem, and you stay there, fixed, as though you were about , to drill a hole in the wall, all of a sudden it will come. And this is the only way. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/24-june-1953#p51 </ref>  The method is always the same. Gather together the energies in you that are usually dispersed outside; concentrate your consciousness within, beneath the surface agitation, and establish, as far as possible, a perfect quietness in your heart and head; then formulate your aspiration, if you have one, and open yourself to receive the divine force from above. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/1-july-1960#p6</ref>
While engaging in work, you one must become what you are one is doing and not remain a small person looking at himself doing it; for if one looks at oneself acting, one is still in complicity with the ego. It is through concentrated attention that one can do things quickly and one does them much better. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/26-april-1951#p33 </ref>
When you want one wants to realise something, you make one makes quite spontaneously the necessary effort; this concentrates your one's energies on the thing to be realised and that gives a meaning to your one's life. This compels you one to a sort of organisation of yourselfoneself, a sort of concentration of your one's energies because it is this that you wish one wishes to do and not fifty other things which contradict it. And it is in this concentration, this intensity of the will, that lies the origin of joy. This gives you the power to receive energies in exchange for those you spendspent. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/13-january-1951#p15</ref>
== Concentration in Integral Yoga ==
'''Content curated by Manoj Pavitran and Divyanshi Chugh'''
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