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2-minute video clip from Peter Brook's Mahabharata.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhqkRGISQr8&t=1458s
Time: 38.40s to 40.43s
What is concentration?
Concentration means fixing the consciousness in one place or on one object and in a single condition. [1]
In concentration proper there is not a series of thoughts, but the mind is silently fixed on one object, name, idea, place etc. [2]
Not thinking at all is not easy; but if one wants a perfect concentration it is essential that there are no thoughts any more. [3]
It is to bring back all the scattered threads of consciousness to a single point, a single idea. [4]
Concentration, for our Yoga, means when the consci
- ↑ Sri Aurobindo. cwsa/29/concentration-and-meditation
- ↑ Sri Aurobindo. (2015). The Synthetic Method of the Integral Yoga. In Letters on yoga II. Retrieved from http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/concentration-and-meditation
- ↑ The Mother. cwm/07/24-august-1955
- ↑ The Mother. (1972). Questions and answers, 1950-1951. In Collected Works of the Mother Volume 4 (p. 5).