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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>
==Concentration, in the path of knowledge==
But in the path of knowledge as it is practised in India concentration is used in a special and more limited sense. It means that removal of the thought from all distracting activities of the mind and that concentration of it on the idea of the One by which the soul rises out of the phenomenal into the one Reality. It is by the thought that we dissipate ourselves in the phenomenal; it is by the gathering back of the thought into itself that we must draw ourselves back into the real.
<ref>Sri Aurobindo. sabcl/20/concentration</ref>
=Purpose of concentration=