Contents

• List of Figures
• 1. Foreword
• 2. Author's Preface
• 3. Success in Life
  • 3.1 The Unlimited Opportunity
  • 3.2 Success and Concentration
  • 3.3 The Higher Achievements
  
  
• 4. The Magic Box
  • 4.1 The Mind's First Power
  • 4.2 Discovery of the Will
  • 4.3 The Roads of Thought
  • 4.4 The Four Roads of Thought
  • 4.5 The Practice of Recall
    • 4.5.1 Exercise 1
    • 4.5.2 Exercise 2
    • 4.5.3 Exercise 3
  
  
• 5. Aids to Concentration
  • 5.1 Attention without Tension
  • 5.2 Natural Images
    • 5.2.1 Confidence
  
  
• 6. Chains Of Thought
  • 6.1 The Walking Mind
  • 6.2 The World of the Mind
  • 6.3 The Track of the Fish
  • 6.4 The Power of the Mood
  • 6.5 Polarization of Thought
    • 6.5.1 Exercise 4
  
  
• 7. Concentration in Daily Life
  • 7.1 Outward and Inward Success
  • 7.2 The Folly of Wishing
    • 7.2.1 Calm Judgement
  • 7.3 Economy of Force
  • 7.4 True Work is Play
  • 7.5 The Four Great Enemies
  
  
• 8. Control Of The Body And Senses
  • 8.1 How to Sit
  • 8.2 The Five Bodily Exercises
  • 8.3 Why Physical Exercises?
  • 8.4 Control of Sensation
  
  
• 9. The Removal Of Intruding Thoughts
  • 9.1 Trouble from Oneself
  • 9.2 One-Pointed Purpose
  • 9.3 Telepathic Intruders
  • 9.4 The Effect of Surroundings
  
  
• 10. Gymnastics Of Concentration
  • 10.1 Direct and Indirect Thinking
  • 10.2 Exercises in Sequence
  • 10.3 Exercises in Grasp
  • 10.4 Exercises in Self-Expansion
  • 10.5 Exercises in Mental Command
  • 10.6 Concentration and Study
  
  
• 11. What Meditation Is
  • 11.1 Concentration and Meditation
  • 11.2 Meditation and Experience
  • 11.3 Meditation and Human Evolution
  
  
• 12. Methods Of Meditation
  • 12.1 Preliminary Practices
  • 12.2 Meditation on Objects
  • 12.3 Practical Exercises
  • 12.4 Meditation on Virtues
  • 12.5 Meditation on the Laws
  • 12.6 Devotional Meditation
  • 12.7 Meditation on Sentences
  • 12.8 Meditation for Writing and Speaking
  • 12.9 Intellectual Meditation
  
  
• 13. Meditation With Mantras
  • 13.1 The Nature of Mantras
  • 13.2 Mantra to Shri Krishna
  • 13.3 Meditation on Shri Krishna
  • 13.4 The Meaning of Om
  
  
• 14. Obstacles To Meditation
  • 14.1 The Three Steps
  • 14.2 Give Up Wishing
  • 14.3 The Need of a Teacher
  • 14.4 Meditate within Yourself
  
  
• 15. Contemplation
  • 15.1 The Top of Your Thought
  • 15.2 Inspiration
  • 15.3 Intellectual Contemplation
  • 15.4 An Explanation
  • 15.5 Devotional Contemplation
  • 15.6 Contemplation and Worship
  • 15.7 Contemplation of the Self
  
  
• 16. Conclusion
• Index