Concentration

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

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Bring the subject as a whole before the mind. This is the most important part of the beginning. It is no good to merely repeat the words or a sentence. Writers have written on the subject of benevolence and speakers have spoken on the subject. As the improvement of the moral nature is a growth which has to be accomplished by ourselves deliberately and intentionally, we should bring before the mind a fine figure to us of a person who taught or who possessed the virtue (of benevolence for instance). General statements cannot be visualised, but particular instances can be visualised. Grasp the meaning of benevolence as taught by the person. This will, all take three to five minutes. Having done this and having fixed the general • meaning of the virtue, the meaning of the author, not your own meaning, then we come to the MIDDLE or meditation proper. The work is to be done through the exercise of three faculties.
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