Concentration

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

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affect ourselves, at present or in the future; the first stage is mere perception, merely the physical body coming in contact with the object, but no change is necessarily made in the immortal part of the man.
The second stage is that the immortal part of the man takes up the subject and decides whether the thing is to be accepted or rejected, and how it will affect the man himself.
Prejudiced and biassed people may have correct perception
If the feelings and the intentions are in the right condition the person may be in the second stage.
In the third stage the person actually determines what course he is going to take as far as that thing is concerned, and the result of it on his ultimate goal. The determination is a mental act, the action is not a mental act.
Even in perception the moral character plays an
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