Concentration

Author(s): Virchand R Gandhi
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre

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viewed from must always be given. From the point of view of the inside a ball is concave, from the point of view outside the ball is convex, which is contradictory of concave.
Still further with reference to the processes of the mind in concentration. There are three stages of consciousness in getting new knowledge (1) synstatis; (2) analysis; (3) synthesis.
(1) The first stage of knowledge of an object is simply a standing together of the knower and the object known; it is simply the knowledge that the thing is something'. The consciousness of it is undeveloped and vague. For example, upon first knowing an orange, you simply see that it is something round and yellow.
(2) The second stage of consciousness is a state of analysing the object, thinking separately of the things composing it, taking each one and mentally
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