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Tips for Optimizing Concentration · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Substance rules over form. This concept is well known in
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  legal circles, when Equity between parties is an issue.
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  It also is obviously, an important thing to remember in
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  any field of life, but most, especially in the practice of
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  yoga SRI aurobindo illustrates this concept with several
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  specific examples. Most people want to follow a set
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  of specific rules to Succeed In Yoga.
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  They are trained on how exactly to seat themselves.
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  What exact breathing technique to utilize the exact manner of
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  in toning. The Mantra the timing of their
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  practice and even where to focus their concentration, they are
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  advised to focus. For example, between The
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  eyebrows or at the tip of the nose or in the heart, they
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  believe that. If they can carry out these
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  external forms precisely, they will achieve realization SRI
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  aurobindo, brings added Clarity to this subject while the form
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  of the word or Mantra. Maybe important, it is more
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  important to dwell on the deeper, meaning of the term so
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  that it is not simply a wrote mechanical repetition.
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  Even one undertakes but a full immersion in the meaning.
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  Similarly, the question of where to focus, the concentration is
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  not related to a nearsighted attention to specific bodily
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  areas but refers to where the Consciousness is seated during
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  the process of concentration or meditation.
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  It is not the space between the eyebrows that must be focused
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  on. But rather the Divine intention
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  In which is the object of the concentration while the
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  awareness seats itself in the specific location.
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  SRI aurobindo observes quote, if one concentrates on a thought or
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  word one has to dwell on the essential idea contained in the
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  word with the aspiration to feel the thing, which it expresses.
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  There's no harm in concentrating, sometimes in the
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  heart and sometimes above the head, but concentration in
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  either place does not mean keeping the attention.
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  Fixed on a particular spot, you have to take your station of
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  Consciousness in either place and concentrate.
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  They're not on the place but on the Divine, this can be done
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  with eyes shut or with eyes open according as Best suits you in
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  code, reference SRI aurobindo and the mother growing within
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  the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 5 growth of Consciousness means and methods
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  Pages, 91, and 92,