Dhyaan

It is not possible to attain full concentration in the process of meditation in the absence of some base. Mind can be trained to concentrate on some pleasant thought. It is extremely difficult to concentrate on any subject that is not pleasing to the mind. Mind should be focussed on any internal or external object or subject. It should be kept focussed for some time with consistency and stability. This is "faith". Practise this daily. The base of "laya yog" or unity with sync is also faith only.

A Vedanti sadhak (practitioner) tries to focus the mind on the soul. Hathyogi and Rajyogi try to focus the mind on the six chakras of their body. The faithful try to focus their mind on their deity. Concentration is a very important requirement for all practitioners.

Those who practice concentration, advance very rapidly, and they gain the capability to accomplish any task in relatively lesser time with greater efficiency. One who can concentrate one's mind can do in half an hour, what would usually take six hours for the uninitiated. Practising concentration purifies the mind. The tide of feelings subsides. Lines of thoughts strengthen, and thoughts become clearer. Concentration helps in material growth as well. A practitioner of concentration executes the jobs at hand with a greater efficiency in office or business as the case may be. What was unclear to him earlier becomes easily comprehensible. Nothing is impossible for one who has practised concentration regularly. Remote vision, remote hearing, hypnotism, mind reading, music, mathematics and scientific pursuits are all dependent upon concentration. Just as laws of gravity and relativity are active at the physical level, similarly relativity, co existence and laws of relativity are active at the level of thought. Practitioners of concentration need to know and understand these very clearly.

When mind thinks about any matter, it analyzes the qualities and components as well. When it thinks about the cause, it also thinks about the associated activity. If you study the religious scriptures like the bhagvadgeeta over and over again, you will discover some new thoughts each time. One is able to appreciate the depth of these scriptures only with the practise of concentration. It is then ,that the deep meaning of these scripture starts becoming clear in the mind of the reader, and one can enter the realm of philosophical depths of these scriptures. Practise to concentrate on different micro (sookshm) and macro (sthool) objects. Gradually, concentration becomes a habit. Just as you sit down to meditate; the mind will attain the state of ready preparedness. If you have any desires in your mind, do not fulfil them. Reject them, as soon as they arise. Gradually their number will decline. Instincts will also diminish. You have to free yourself from all weaknesses of thought, superstitions, false imaginary fears and bad sanskars, then only can you learn to concentrate.