Mastering the Power of Concentration

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Listen to episode 1040 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Concentration and Meditation. Edited and adapted from Concentration and Meditation by Swami Paramananda.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: WE all possess the faculty of concentration, but with the majority it is instinctive and automatic, not conscious. Even among the animals, we see how a lion or tiger will gather their strength by a moment of absolute stillness before they spring upon their prey. That automatic, instinctive power of concentration is embedded in every living creature. But until we can gain conscious command over our mental and spiritual forces, we can never have complete concentration.

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1:24.9	Welcome to the inspirational living podcast.
1:28.6	Today's reading was edited and adapted from Concentration and Meditation by Shami Paramanando, published in 1921.
1:40.5	We all possess the faculty of concentration, but with the majority it is instinctive and automatic, not conscious.
1:56.0	Even among the animals we see how a lion or a tiger will gather their strength by a moment of
2:03.8	absolute stillness before they spring upon their prey. That automatic, instinctive, power
2:13.1	of concentration is embedded in every living creature. But until we can gain conscious command over our
2:22.5	mental and spiritual forces, we can never have complete concentration. When this scattered mind is
2:31.8	gathered together, it is like a bright searchlight, and by it
2:36.8	we are able to investigate the latent powers which we possess, but of which we are not
2:43.3	now wholly aware.
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