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4/Meditation and Enlightenment : Chandr Prabh
Hence, first of all, I shall see that man concentrates all his energy and power on one point. Only that person who lives by accumulating his energy in totality, can achieve concentration. The fragments of energy are accumulated in the life of that person. Trance is but the accumulation and equation of the mind and the consciousness which are going on getting divided into pieces. The scattering of consciousness is the creation of masks. Only he is honest to life who preserves consciousness in its totality and lives in it.
ARHAT MANEESHA has given a good word-pratikraman' (bringing back). It means bringing the consciousness back from all those places wherever it is getting attached. If my consciousness gets attached to you, I shall call it back, because the attachment of home is calling. Memory is calling. Memory of home is the foundation-stone of the certainty of commitment.
The most appropriate place to get one's energy concentrated is the centre of light between the two eyes. Concentrate your energy at this centre. If even after concentrating all your energy, there is no vibration of the soul, nor is there any perception of consciousness, in that case one thing that is quite certain is that your conscience will be completely accomplished. Conscience will bloom in full in your mind. The person who concentrates his inner consciousness in the mind, his conscience remains complete.
You just imagine-I am also a small creature. I strived and succeeded in concentrating the energy of thoughts and heart. I shall say that if you concentrate all your energy, power of consciousness here for only seven days, then within these seven days, you will begin to perceive the vibration of consciousness.
The consciousness which is getting distributed in the body, getting scattered, you would find that getting accumulated at a place. Just as the watch ticks, so also takes place the vibration of self-perceptions. Vibration would be felt too. This light gets accumulated in the mind, and the perception of self-vibrations is bound to occur if a man concentrates all his energy, his consciousness at one place. Even a stone wears away if the flow of water from a tap falls persistently at one particular spot.
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