(1) Concentration is perfect attention consciously directed to a given point of achievement either objectively or subjectively.

(2) Concentration is consecration.

“What ever you do, do it with all your might.  Do one thing at a time and do it well.”  By concentration is meant the directing of all your energies along a special line of achievement.  For instance, if you would be a perfect Yogi, you must concentrate, concentrate, morning, noon and night, at all times, along that line of endeavour.  You must study all the vast literature on Yoga, Psychology, Metaphysics, Mentalism, etc., and form your own synthesis on same.  You must think hard and work hard for Yoga.  “Genius is the power to bear infinite pain.”  Nothing ought to be too great a sacrifice, including your own life, for the right understanding and achievement of Yoga.

All half-heartedness, all insincerity, weakens your nature, and weakness has no place either in heaven or in hell.  For the half-hearted man is a traitor unto the Divine within him and must pay dearly for his treachery.

SUBJECTIVE CONCENTRATION—­HOW PRACTISED.

This is a vast subject.  If you practise earnestly my instructions on Thought-Control, Will-Culture, and take the Meditation Exercise I am going to give you, you will realize greater strength than average humanity.  But you must study and think hard for yourself before any considerable benefit can be derived from even these.  Remember please, you alone can teach yourself through intuition.  Intuition is tuition from within.  Follow strictly the general rules I give you and you cannot but unfold your Inner Soul Vision which includes intuition in its fullest sense.

(a) What is Thought-Force?

“Thoughts are things.”  Thought is a dynamic energy.  Just as the food that you eat feeds your body, exactly similarly your thoughts and feelings nourish your soul.  Matter is nothing but a concentration of Thought-Force or Mind-Substance.  The entire universe is seen objectively.  This is on the cosmic scale.  On the individual scale—­“As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is.”  This is a literal truth.  Your body is nothing but a Thought-Form.  Control your modes of thinking and shape them to lofty ideals.  So will you infallibly, positively and immediately control your destiny.  Control your thoughts and you can control the thoughts of all other men.  The tone of your thoughts must always be lofty.  You must change your Thought-Habits and shift your plane of consciousness from the lower to the higher life.  I am going to give you hints on same.  Pay attention please.

(b) Thought-Forms.