What is Concentration?,Difference between Meditation and concentration,Samadhi

What is Concentration?

There are three processes. One is concentration, second is meditation and the third is samadhi. Focussing mental attention on anything continuously

at will is concentration. In concentration, you can use the senses. You can think of one thing, particularly, you can see anything and concentrate on it or think of any form and concentrate. You can think of any form in your mind and concentrate on it, whether it is material or immaterial. This is called, in spiritual parlance, concentration.

Meditation and Concentration

Meditation is something different from concentration. Meditation is a process of self-awareness, fixing the mind on the life-force. The life-force and the mind become one and the mind then transcends to soul consciousness. Meditation is a word derived from mediation.

We see millions of appearances on the whole world. All are associations of energy particles. Even when we think of the whole universe, every appearance will be understood as association of etherical particles only. They take so many shapes in association.

Similarly, in our body, our life-force is the phenomenon. In between the seen world and unseen Truth, the medium is the life force or the energy particle. Therefore, fixing the mind on the life-force is called Meditation. There is no extension. There is no extinction. Practicing the mind in the middle state of consciousness is called meditation.

Samadi 

Becoming equal to Primordial state

Then what is 'Samadhi'? Here, two words 'Sama' and 'Adhi' are joined together. 'Sama' means 'equal' and 'Adhi' means 'Primordial State'. The practice of 'Samadhi' is practicing the mind to become equal to the primordial state.

As a fruit of this practice, the mind transcends to Total Consciousness. You know that the Universe is moving and changing, functioning etc., but one thing that is not in motion is called Static State. All are starting from moving and ending in the Static State only.

The Static State is Absolute. When mind attunes, merges and becomes one and remains in the Absolute, the mind and the Absolute become one. There will be no difference between the two. Whatever you think, the mind takes that shape of it. When you think of the Absolute, what is the state of the mind? When you really think of Absolute, you become Nothing, Vacuum or Brahman with self awareness. That is Sama Adhi, Samadhi.