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Karma as the Source of Diversity

The vedas acknowledge divine karma as the origin of all creation, preservation, and destruction. However, since God does not have desires, unlike humans, he is not constrained by them. In the first chapter of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (1.6.1), we discover that karma is one of the three main causes of diversity, alongside name and form. The variety in names is a result of speech, and the variety in forms is a result of the eye, while the mind and body are the sources for the variety in actions. For every action, the body serves as the source, the controller, or the lord.  Within the body, the mind, speech, breath, organs of action, and organs of perception are regarded as the primary deities who receive sustenance from the body and carry out their respective functions. Nevertheless, we cannot solely depend on them to combat the impurities and the malevolent forces that can infiltrate our body, as they are susceptible to evil and demonic influences, thoughts, desires, temptations,...
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CONCENTRATION PART-2




This blog would cover the topic Concentration from the Positive Psychology's point of view. Today's State of Psychology should be carried from "not good enough" to "good enough". Quality of our life depends upon the quality of our work. And the quality of work depends on our concentration.

Our concentration should be focused on our work which we are doing and not on the result or the feedback which we are going to get. For example, if I keep on thinking about the result and the feedback which I got on my previous blogs and not focus on my current blog then this current blog would also be affected. 

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, wrote a famous book "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience". As his theory we approximately have 126 bits per second to understand something that we are paying attention to. By this theory and the principle of Positive Psychology, concentration of a person is how much of that 126 bits can be used to give attention to the object of concentration. To give full 126 bits of attention to a work is not so easy because we have our body and surroundings to think of. 

Flow is something which comes, when we challenge the skill that we know by our work. Here, the word 'Flow' given by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi means that we should have full concentration on a work with complete feel of the experience. Best of any concentration is, when you forget the consciousness of your conscious mind and focus on the work. Concentration should be on the work rather on the result because it creates a barrier to the concentration. 

Swami Vivekananda said that the degree of concentration varies from person to person which makes someone to be great.

Refer CONCENTRATION PART-1 also for more information.

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