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<ref>The Mother. (1972). On Education. In Collected works of the Mother Volume 12 (p. 398). Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram.</ref>

The first step in concentration must be always to accustom the discursive mind to a settled unwavering pursuit of a single course of connected thought on a single subject and this it must do undistracted by all lures and alien calls on its attention. Such concentration is common enough in our ordinary life, but it becomes more difficult when we have to do it inwardly without any outward object or action on which to keep the mind; yet this inward concentration is what the seeker of knowledge must effect.

This is the process of concentrated [[meditation]];

==Practicing [[mediation]] or concentration using a sentence==