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see the breakfast and take it. But what happened? In the meantime a friend dropped by -- he also saw him so concentrated. He looked at the breakfast getting cold and said, "Better let him do his work. I should finish the breakfast first, it is getting cold." He ate the breakfast and Edison was not even aware that this friend was there and had eaten his breakfast.
When he returned from his concentration, he looked around, saw the friend and saw the empty plates. He told the friend, "Please forgive me. You came a little late and I have already taken my breakfast." Obviously, because the plates were finished somebody had eaten, and who else could have eaten it? He must have! The poor friend could not understand what to do. He was thinking to give him a surprise but this man had given him a bigger surprise: he said, "You came a little late...."
But the wife was watching the whole thing. She came in and she said, "He has not come late, you have come late! He has finished your breakfast. I was watching, but I saw that it was getting cold anyway; at least somebody ate it. You are some scientist! How you manage your science I cannot understand." The wife said, "You don't even know who has eaten your breakfast, and you are asking his apology, 'You came a little late, I am sorry....'"
Concentration is always the narrowing of your consciousness. The narrower it becomes, the more powerful it is. It is like a sword that cuts into any secret of nature: you have to become oblivious of everything. But this is not religion. Many people have misunderstood -- not only in the West, but in the East too. They think that concentration is religion. It gives you tremendous powers, but those powers are of the mind.
For example, the king of Varanasi in India went through an operation in 1920 -- just in this century -- and created news all over the world because of his operation. He refused to take any anesthetic. He said, "I have taken a vow not to take anything that makes me unconscious, so I cannot be put under chloroform; but you need not be worried."
It was a major operation -- to remove his appendix. Now, to take out somebody's appendix without giving
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