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Yogic Concentration · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The power of concentration is well known.
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  It is a power that we utilize daily to accomplish the various
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  test set before us or to achieve some goal that we have set for
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  ourselves in yoga also the power of concentration is required.
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  The focus and intention behind the concentration, is the
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  primary difference between ordinary concentration and that
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  utilized by practitioners of yoga?
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  In his lectures on Raja yoga, Swami Vivekananda.
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  Devote considerable efforts to explain concentration describing
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  the processes outlined by patanjali and how it can be
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  intensified and focused and the kind of results.
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  One can obtain a systematic process of purification
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  quieting, the mind control of the posture and the breadth and
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  eventually, Directing the concentration upon specific
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  subjects or objects is outlined. As the concentration
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  intensifies, it becomes more and more directed and extraneous
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  thoughts feelings, and perceptions drop-off.
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  The result of this concentration is to see the manifestation of
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  certain cities or powers that arise when concentration is
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  focused in particular areas or attainment of the state of
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  samadhi. SRI aurobindo provides
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  additional insight to the process of concentration.
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  SRI aurobindo writes, quote ordinarily, the Consciousness is
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  spread out everywhere, dispersed running in this, or that
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  direction after this subject and that object in multitude.
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  When anything has to be done of a sustained nature.
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  The first thing one does is to draw back all this dispersed
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  Consciousness and concentrate. It is then if one looks closely
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  bound to be concentrated in one place and on one occupation
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  subject or object, as when you are composing, a poem, or a
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  botanist is studying a flower. The place is usually somewhere
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  in the brain, if it is the thought in the heart, if it is
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  the feeling in which one is concentrated, the yoga
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  concentration is simply an extension and intensification of
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  the same. I'm thing.
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  It may be on an object as when one does tratak on a shining
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  point, then one has to concentrate.
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  So that one sees only that point and has no other thought than
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  that, it may be on an idea or word, or a name, the idea of the
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  Divine, the word ohm the name, Krishna, or a combination of
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  idea, and word, or idea and name.
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  But further in yoga, one also concentrates in a particular
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  place, there is the famous rule of concentrating between the
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  eyebrows. The center of the inner mind of
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  a cult vision of the will, is there what you do is to think
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  firmly from there or whatever you make the object of your
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  concentration, or else try to see the image of it from there.
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  If you succeed in this then after it time you feel that your
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  whole Consciousness is centered there in that place, of course,
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  for the time being After doing it for some time and often it
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  becomes easy and normal. It may be asked What Becomes of
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  the rest of the Consciousness. When there is this local
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  concentration, Well, at either fall silent as in any
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  concentration or if it does not, then thoughts are other things.
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  May move about as if outside but the concentrated part does not
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  attend to them or notice. That is when the concentration
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  is reasonably successful, When has not to fatigue oneself at
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  first by long concentration. If one is not accustomed for
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  then, in a jaded mind, it loses, its power and value one can
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  relax and meditate. Instead of concentrating, it is
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  only as the concentration becomes normal, that one can go
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  on for a longer and longer time. And quote, reference SRI
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  aurobindo, and the mother growing within the psychology of
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  inner development. Chapter 5 growth of
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  Consciousness means and methods Pages, 92 91,