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References:
1. "When we popularly use the word concentration, we sometimes imply a sense of effort to think or analyze, a process that may even sound a little stressful. However, the word concentration, as we mean it here, certainly does not implys effort, tension or mental strain-it simply means 'focused attention."
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-Swami Rama in Meditation and its practice, Honesdale, Pennsylvania, 1992, pp. 46-47.
2. Very little of the mind is cultivated by our formal education system. The part of the mind that dreams and sleeps, the vast realm of the unconscions, which is the reservoir of all our experiences, remains unknown and undisciplined, it is not subject to any control.
-Ibidem, pp 9
3. The data obtained from experimental studies on yogic meditation show a decrease in oxygin, consumption, a decrease in carbon dioxide elimination, a decrease in basal metabolic rate, diminished heart rate and respiration, production of alpha rhythm in E.E.G. and increased galvanic skin resistance. All these observations suggest that yogic meditation leads to a hypometabolic mental relaxation produced in the person as a result of meditation.
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-Dr. Jaggi, O.P.-Mental tension and its cure, Delhi, 1986, pp. 142.
4. The lower form of will is desire. The higher form of will is love. It is the love that subdues passions and other sensuous appetites and wins the freedom from the shackness of matter. -Swami Sundrarachaitanyananda, Sound from the Silence, Rajahmundry, Pp, 5/15.
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A person
5. To see is one thing, to picture or visualize is another. can see things only when his eyes are open, and when his surroundings are illuminated; but he can have pictures in his mind's eye, when his eyes are shut and when the world is dark. Similarly he can hear music only in situation in which other people could also hear it; but a tune can run in his head, when his nighbour can hear no music at all.
-The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle, Penguin Books, 1990 pp. 232-33.
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