Concentration Part II

You should regulate your every thought and feeling. A person

who cannot regulate his thought, wishes, plans, resolutions and
studies cannot achieve success to the fullest extent. A person
who is impulsive is not a master of his thoughts, feelings and
wishes. Such a person cannot become a successful man. When
he gets irritated he irritates others. When you are talking to
any one give him your sole and undivided attention.
Concentration means success- because you are better able to
govern and centralize your mind.
When you are talking to a person, concentrate your strength
upon the purpose you are talking about. Watch his every move.
But keep your own plans before you. Unless you do this, you
only waste your energy. If you want all your powers, you have
to close all the valves and direct your power on generating
mental steam on generating mental steam. Centre your mind
on one purpose one plan one transaction. Anger, sarcasm
and excitement weaken a person. The person who allows
himself to get excited will become nervous at times because he
uses his nerve forces and his vital energies. Just for a steam
engine it is impossible to run with all its valves open, it is
impossible for you to waste your energy and simultaneously
run at top speed. If you throw a voluntary control over these
thoughts, physical movements, messages, impulses and all
physical instruments; you develop your faculties of selfmastery. The extent you succeed here, in proportion you
develop the power of concentration.
Any exercise that emotionalizes excites the mind, stimulates
the senses, cause the emotions of appetite in to action,
confuses, terrifies or emotionalize weakens the power of the
concentration. This is why all kinds of excitement are bad.
That is why people who drink hard, sing and dance with their
emotions, eat stimulating food, who are sudden, emotional and
vehement lack power of concentration. But whose actions are
slow are like the engineers of the mind mind is a machine
but someone is required to engineer it. Without it, one cannot
go far. Direction is concentration. Controlled deep breathing is
very important. Control the movement of eyes, mouth, ears and

fingers. Each of these contains miniature minds that are

controlled by master engineer. There is no better exercise than
listening to what one is talking- this improves concentration.