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THE DYNAMICS OF MEDITATION
“What I have achieved,” he said, “is the result of meditation and a lesson my father gave me. When I was a young boy of ten, my father came to me with a magnifying glass in his hand and he said, "Come with me." It was summer and we went into the garden where he collected a few blades of grass and made a heap of them. Then he asked me, “Do you think that the sun can burn these blades of grass?"
"I thought for a moment and answered," "No, I don't think so. The sun is not burning anything now and I don't see how it could start burning this little pile of grass."
"Then he said, 'Let me show you.' He held the magnifying glass over the grass so the sun's rays could pass through it. In a short time the little pile burst into flames.
"Then my father told me, The same sun was shining here on all the earth, but it did not ignite the blades of grass. Now see the miracle. I brought all the rays together through this magnifying glass and they became power, energy, fire. The scattered rays of the sun will not ignite the grass, but when they are brought together, focused on one point, they create energy and fire.
"Then my father told me, 'If you want to have any success in life, to achieve anything, you bring all your thoughts together. You must have one-pointedness. Then you will know there is not anything in the world in which you will not succeed. Success does not belong to any special people, nor to any special race, caste, creed or sex. Success belongs to those people who can bring their whole attention to one pointedness. If you focus on anything, it will open its heart to you."
