#6 -- Arising eased away from dispersal and whirlpool magnet gravities, one arises towards Focus / Center / Concentration
#6 yes, it interests me how necessary it seems to be, to find our spiritual center.
This would have it's relation with Dharana ?
I propose Dharana is the opposite of "diffusion / dispersion"
Dharana is
PIN-POINTED CONCENTRATION UNWAVERING
Others, care to share on Dharana ?
In the Kriya lessons Paramahansa Yogananda defines dharana as - concentration.... holding the mind to one thought. Dharana is the power to use the interiorized mind one - pointedly to concentrate upon God.
However he remarks that ; "Many people think it is easy to meditate, but true meditation is actually impossible without first climbing the steps of yama-niyama, asana , pranayama, and pratyahara. Only those who have practiced these five steps can control the body and moods and habits; and exercise the ability to switch off the current from the five senses so that the attention, which is ordinarily tied to sensory experience, is freed through pratyahara to go within and meditate on God."
One must first be able to master pratyahara in which there is an awareness of inner forces and the ability to to make the mind return within in a state of mind when it is disconnected from the five sense " telephones" . At that point it is possible to enter Dharana.... the 'PIN-POINTED CONCENTRATION UNWAVERING' Scott mentioned in the previous post.
