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What is concentration?

Concentration means fixing the consciousness in one place or on one object and in a single condition. Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag

By concentration, I mean that all the energy, all the will, all the aspiration must be turned only towards the Divine and His integral realisation in our consciousness.

Concentration is a state one must be in continually, whatever the outer activity.

Why should we concentrate?

...whatever you may want to do in life, one thing is absolutely indispensable and at the basis of everything, the capacity of concentrating the attention.

Those who can attain perfect attention succeed in everything they undertake; they will always make a rapid progress.

There is nothing in the human or even in the superhuman field, to which the power of concentration is not the key.

You can be the best athlete, you can be the best student, you can be an artistic, literary or scientific genius, you 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.


If you are 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.

There is no spiritual obstacle which can resist a penetrating power of concentration. For instance, the discovery of the psychic being, union with the inner Divine, opening to the higher spheres, all can be obtained by an intense and obstinate power of concentration —but one must learn how to do it.[1]


The Mother. (1998). Questions and Answers 1957-1958, Vol. 9 (pp. 360-361).


“It is well known that the value of a man is in proportion to his capacity of concentrated attention; the greater the concentration the more exceptional is the result, to the extent that a perfect and unfailing concentrated attention sets the stamp of genius on what is produced.” - The Mother


References

  1. The Mother. (1998). Questions and Answers 1957-1958, Vol. 9 (pp. 360-361).