How to concentrate? || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Concentration can be easy || Acharya Prashant, at BITS Pilani, Goa (2022)

Transcript

00:00Sir, we can't really focus on a task at a particular time.

00:04The ones who are into real things, never need to concentrate.

00:10Concentration just comes to them, running, a begging.

00:13The ones who are into unreal things, keep trying to concentrate and still fail.

00:18The mind is distracted and running in 40 other directions.

00:21On one hand you think, for example, that studies are just a way to secure placements.

00:28Then what is it that you are putting value on?

00:31Placements.

00:32Now how will you concentrate on studies?

00:34How will you value academics now?

00:37Your mind will go where your values are.

00:40See what you really want and then there will be no need to practice concentration.

00:46You need to value the right desire.

00:50You need to put your time where your real value is.