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An Inward Concentration Is Necessary for the Seeker of Knowledge · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The ability to concentrate the Mind allows us to function in
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  the world in a coherent Manner and to create results in
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  whatever field, the concentration takes up without
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  concentration. The mind would jump from one
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  perception. One impression, one idea to
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  another randomly and instantaneously as new impulses
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  arise. Everyone has had the experience
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  of concentration, whether it be taking a test in school or
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  trying to excel at some skill or sport were in taking up the
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  study of Music art, or even reading a book and being
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  absorbed in it. Sometimes we Face a situation
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  where we need to work through a series of steps or options and a
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  period of time elapses, as we systematically try to sort out
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  those choices and make the right decision.
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  We can also experience concentration and playing games
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  with the strategic game of chess, being one of the
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  long-standing fame and worldwide, Acclaim.
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  As one of the ultimate games that promote the ability of the
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  mind to focus concentrate and exclude extraneous factors to
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  achieve the result of checkmate, Of course, there are many forms
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  of concentration. That relate to specific ideas.
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  Thoughts, emotions plans, feelings were physical
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  situations. More difficult for most people,
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  is a form of concentration that does not latch onto an external
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  object and yet is not a dispersed or fragmented state of
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  consciousness. Once the mind has been
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  habituated to the practice of concentration, such as following
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  a specific thought or idea through along its path, it
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  becomes necessary for the secret of shift, the concentration in
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  words, the practices of Raja yoga developed this into a
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  science. Control of the breath following
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  and focusing on the breath. Can become a first step in the
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  process of detaching, the concentration from an outer
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  form. As the Mind moves to Stillness
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  concentration can be centered in a location such as between the
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  eyebrows or in the heart, or above the head without specific
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  content, other than the sense of the location of the
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  concentration. Another option is to use a
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  mantra or Java to drive out all other random thoughts and then
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  let the Consciousness Focus. So intensely that it no longer
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  needs the Java to remain concentrated.
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  Others focus on an external light such as a candle flame,
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  until awareness of the flame itself disappears.
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  SRI aurobindo recounted a method, he utilized to obtain
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  silence in the mind. He observed, the thoughts coming
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  in and rejected them before they could take hold.
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  After some time he was able to obtain the concentrated status
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  of the silent mind. SRI aurobindo writes, quote.
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  The mind is the thing that dwells in diffusion in
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  succession, it can only concentrate on one thing at a
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  time. And when not concentrated runs
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  from one thing to another very much at random, therefore, it
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  has to concentrate on a single idea.
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  A single subject of meditation, a single object of
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  contemplation, a single object of will. in order to possess or
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  Master it, And this, it must do at least.
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  The temporary exclusion of all things.
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  The first step in concentration, must be always to accustom.
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  The discursive mind to a settled unwavering pursuit of a single
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  course of connected thought on a single subject.
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  And this it must do undistracted, by all lures and
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  alien calls on its attention. Such concentration is common
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  enough in our ordinary life. But it becomes more difficult
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  when we have to do it inwardly without any outward object or
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  action on which to keep the mind.
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  Yet, this inward concentration is what the Seeker of knowledge
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  must affect in, quote, reference SRI, aurobindo, and the mother
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  growing within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter for growth of Consciousness.
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  First steps and Foundation page, 69.
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  Foundation page, 69.