Dr. Sudhir Arora, MBBS
Pune's Leading Mind Control Consultant and Motivational Speaker

Concentration As A By-product :

• You may be finding some difficulties in your meditation practice. Does not matter. All the problems will vanish gradually.
• There is no perfection in meditation. You only have to do it. That's all.
• Many years ago like you I was also irregular initially. But as the time passed it all became more and more regular spontaneously. The same will happen to you also.
• Just remember that each and every day that you do meditation is important in your inner journey.
• Even if you had stopped for some time in between it does not matter really in the long term. Just start once again today.

CONCENTRATION IS ANTI-MEDITATION :

• Please understand that meditation is not, I repeat, not concentration of mind.
• In concentration you are basically trying to focus your awareness on one particular thought, feeling or sensation to the exclusion of all the other remaining Truth--i.e. 1 % inclusion and 99% exclusion.
• Concentration is, therefore, anti-meditation! Yes, your act of concentration in reality is the opposite of meditation and takes you away from real meditation.
• The actual meditation is being totally aware and watching without any judgement or exclusion The Whole Truth unfolding on your own body. While concentration means trying to divide The One Complete Whole Truth unfolding in your body into favourable and unfavourable parts.
• This act of division itself is so silly! That's why all people who try to concentrate on one particular thing find after sometime that it becomes an uphill struggle to meditate.
• Soon the "action" of concentrating' becomes more important than "awareness" of The Truth itself. Instead of giving you inner peace and tranquility, this struggle later leads you more and more into inner turmoil and chaos.
• Your concentration will automatically improve as a by-product of meditation. But concentration as such is not meditation.