Is meditation only for spiritual aspirants? Bhagawan answers and points out its benefits. Purposefully directing attention on a subject and fixing it there is one-pointedness (ekagrata). This is also a condition of the mind. Concentration and one-pointedness help to focus effort on any selected task. Concentration is essential for all. It’s the foundation of all successful endeavours. It’s needed not only for meditation but even for worldly affairs and ordinary living. Whatever task one’s engaged in, doing it with concentration will develop both self-confidence and self-respect, for they are the results of the attitude of one’s own mind. The mind may lean on either bad or good, that’s why concentrated attention must be employed to keep the mind attached only to good promptings. Success or failure in good tasks depends upon one-pointedness. One-pointedness will increase power and skill. But it cannot be won without conquering the worldly cravings that distract the mind. This one-pointedness, this conquest of the mind, is acquired by the exercise of meditation.