ContinuiContinuing with the series focusing on the five A's in chanting Japa - Mahanidhi Swami Maharaja gives some nice advice and realisations on the subject of Attentionng with the series focusing on the five A's in chanting Japa - Mahanidhi Swami Maharaja gives some nice advice and realisations on the subject of Attention
2. Attention
Attention means steady application of the mind, or focusing the consciousness on a particular subject. Whatever one focuses his attention on becomes deeply impressed in the mind. Although the mind can move from one object to another with fantastic speed, Vedic sastras and modern science concur that the mind can only do one thing at a time. This is called the "single idea" principle of the mind. For example, if one is reading an exciting book with full attention, he will not hear the sounds in the surrounding enviroment.
Taken from The Art of Chanting Hare Krsna by Mahanidhi Swami
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I would appreciate the original author being given credit for this quote. This post was originally written by me and not Paras Nagpal....in the future when you copy and paste a quote, include the author's name and the source of the quote.
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