Memory

August 1, 01

Memory is a mental device that brings the past before the present to the mind in the movement of successive events.
Mind needs no memory as memory is ever-present in it.
It is only the surface mind when it becomes finite tearing itself away from the infinite that forgets.
Those who have created the science of astrology had subtle memory in their subliminal opening.
We have heard of photographic memory, tenacious memory and the memory that facilitates presence of mind which is a coordinating memory.
Those who enjoy observation are endowed with greater memory.
Observation can be of an understanding mind that tries to see a law behind observation. Their memory will be great and strong in details relating to the law they perceived.
The un-understanding man, who enjoys observation, is often a tale-bearer or a gossipmonger and at best a conscience keeper who all delight in being in the flow of life for its own sake. All those people are usually devoid of understanding of any type.
Memory is primarily mental, but extends to the subtle plane as well as the physical material plane.
Relics is based on material memory.
Subtle plane remembers in one man what another gives up or forgets.
Memory is a faculty which generally operates with the help of another or when seen in coordination with another factor.
When that factor is SELF, memory works best. “Man remembers what affects him most.”
People are small in Time and Space and are fully locally-oriented and will not remember anything outside their family or community, however important it is.
Even if something is forgotten, if it is important to the body like health, a little scratching will bring the fact or number to memory in a flash.
It is true there are special faculties in people for numbers, shapes, smells, words, etc.
When an old context that is forgotten is raked up sometimes all the persons, events, and words can come back to memory in some.
Mother says there is a place in the subtle world where the memory of the earth is stored.
Re-visiting places can have this effect.
At all turning points in life, such as job, marriage, first visit to a town, etc. the events of such occasions will be remembered or stick to the memory by themselves.
You can forget a person who was your roommate for a long time, but remember a brother of his whom you saw for a few hours if he had touched your life.
Members of our caste, habits, style of dress especially during periods of change will be retained by the memory.
Professionals will remember the work not the person; the doctors the disease, lawyers the cases, etc. as their own interest is not in the person.
Fans will remember minor details of actors for years.
Dislike may work in the reverse. A wife’s birthday or even her name can be forgotten.
People will remember other members of higher social standing for decades even if they are non-entities now like caste in India, aristocracy in England.
Every small detail spoken by a VIP will be remembered for his sake.
Important facts spoken by unimportant people will be remembered, but the person, however close he is, even if he is now talking to you will be totally forgotten.
‘It is sin to remember small people.’
A fact will be sweet in the nth repetition as having spoken it umpteen times it will actually be forgotten.
Mean people remember all the defects of others so as to use them readily later.
Obligations are necessarily forgotten.