Full Video: Don’t try to concentrate, simply remain attentive || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2015)
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00:00Attention is a love affair. Concentration is torture. Being with someone because you love him is one thing and being with someone because you have been forced to be with that person is another thing. Is that not?
00:13Concentration is when you are being forced to be with the book. How do you like it? You don't like a man and you are being pushed to be with that man. You don't like a book and you are being pushed to read that book because if you don't read it then there is the fear of failure in exams.
00:28You must also observe that behind concentration always lie fear and greed. If your lion comes in front of you, have you seen how deeply you will concentrate because it is dangerous. Ego concentrates only on that which it either finds beneficial or dangerous.
00:43If there is a collage here consisting of a thousand images and in between that there is the image of a seductive girl, see how you will concentrate. You will forget all the other 1000 images but that seductress, your eyes will go and simply penetrate. So concentration is so easy.