Memory, the fifth layer of Circle of NEW YOU identified by blue colour, stores thoughts, emotions and desires.
Memory acts as an obedient & good student and stores everything that comes on its way. In modern scientific terms it’s like a computer hard disk, where data is stored. Like hard disk, memory stores data, good or bad does not matter. However, unlike hard disk which gets erased out for any data corruption, the human memory does not get erased out. The loss of memory is not absence of memory but inability of the activation layer to access the data.
As per ancient philosophers, memory can hold information of previous lives and pass on to the future lives as well. This concept is known as ‘water memory’, which has influenced medical science to invent vaccinations.
As per yogic theories, the strength of memory can be enhanced through practices and right kind of food habits.
More information can be found out in the philosophy section.
Memory is the fifth layer of Circle of NEW YOU represented by the blue colour in the seven concentric layers. This layer is akin to computer hard disk and stores human thoughts, emotions and desires.
Something remarkable hidden inside, which helps other parts to move in right speed and accuracy. To some, greatest piece of engineering is the computer or the smartphone. What makes these devices so special? Well, it’s the fact that they can multi-task and process information but more importantly, they store information in their hard drives.
The memory layer in human engineering is our hard drive, which stores information, good bad or ugly. Philosophers have speculated about memory for over 2000 years. Many of the richer and more intriguing feature of human memory are not only difficult, but impossible to find out in most advanced laboratory testing.
The modern science treats memory like a storage area which has capacity to preserve data and render it as required. Memory as science finds is erasable, but as per philosophical theories has got far deeper meaning and many scholars believe that it’s not erasable and we have all been endowed with the memory, which is far from current life and can be traced back even to previous lives as well.
Some of the yogic practices tries to bring past memory to current lives through ‘past life regression’ therapies, which is well accepted, though in limited capacity both in west and east. Even in some scriptures there are instances where memory is given importance of element of infinite values, which cannot be emptied - it can only be filled up and expanded. There is no contraction for memory. This is in line with modern day big-bang theories and other popular theories of universe creation, where there is a concept of all elements in expansion and revolving state.
The ancient doctrines try to explain memory as an element of the universe, which inherits one important properties of the universe, there is no beginning and there is no end - it just keeps adding to the existing state and never gets subtracted.
Famous mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, who had a photographic memory once quoted saying “An equation means nothing to me unless it is expressed as a thought of God.” By that he meant, the power of memory is as deep as God.
Another photographic memory holder - the famous musician Mozart once quoted “music is not notes, but silence in between.” He could almost remember almost everything that he sees and could recollect perfectly, but he believed that it is the recollection in science which expands the power of memory.
Yes, there is partial congruence between science and philosophy on validity and power of memory, but both believe that memory is an extraordinary possession in human engineering.