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CONCENTRATION*
1. Introduction
Concentration was defined as “the steady activity of the mind”. Therefore activity of the body or of speech is not concentration. Unsteady activity of the mind is not concentration, nor is inactivity or passivity of the mind concentration as here meant.
Unsteady activity of the mind is the state which precedes concentration; it was called a liquid state, which is to become as it were crystalised into a solid state; the liquid state is the progenitor as it were of the concentrated state.
* These lectures are the substance from H. Warren's private notes of a series of twelve lectures on concentration, given by Mr. Virchand R. Gandhi, B. A., Bar-at-law Spring 1900 in London.
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