64. Technique to Boost your Memory🔗

A small story: When Alexander came to invade India, he was told by his teacher, 'When you come back, please bring the Vedas from India.' So when Alexander came to India, he started collecting, collecting, collecting all the Vedas he could find. After filling more than two hundred ships, he came to know that he has finished collecting only one tenth of the Vedas! A Brahmin priest who saw his started laughing and said, 'Fool, you should have told me that you need to take back the Vedas! I would have just sent two of my disciples with you; they would have repeated the whole thing for your teacher!'

That is the power of the Vedic education system. Because of the modern 'memory collection' education system, people are becoming more and more specialized in every profession, because they are afraid that they cannot handle a large amount of information; a large number of memories. Specialization is nothing but limiting the information you need to handle.

I have started sharing this Vedic technology with the children studying in our gurukul. You will be surprised at the memory power of the kids! All I tell them is 'Unclutch after studying.' It looks paradoxical! People think, 'If I unclutch after studying, won't I forget whatever I studied? No, you won't.

When you study, when you collect memory, it is like a high-resolution picture, because your memories, your emotions, are attached to them. When you unclutch from it, it gets compressed and becomes like a Word document and goes into your system.

Not only that, the mind available to you to retrieve the memory will also be very sharp.

It is like applying oil on your hands before cutting open a jackfruit! If you don't apply the oil, the gum from the jackfruit is going to stick to your whole hand, and you will not be able to retrieve exactly what you want to retrieve! Your chitta, your memory file, is that like the jackfruit – no, it is like a Pandora's box; when you open it, you don't know what will come out! You open it for some purpose, and something else comes out, and you are caught with that!

When you will apply the oil of consciousness, you will not be stuck; you will retrieve the right file, rightly, without getting affected by it, without getting attached to it, without bringing suffering with it.

When it comes to the external world, memory is perfectly alright; it pays your bills, it brings you your paycheck, it makes you productive, it makes you part of civilization, it makes you feel comfortable with the outer world. But when it comes to the inner world, constantly try to unclutch. Try to be in the zone beyond memory.

Please understand: I am not asking you to be absentminded, I am not asking you to go to the level below memory. Being absentminded is not unclutching! Unclutching will put you above the mind.

Experiment with this idea for the next eleven days: constantly try to unclutch. Unclutching means, not connecting with your memory. Whenever thoughts rise, remember to unclutch and relax. After some time, your mind will naturally say, 'I am unclutching, unclutching, unclutching.' Unclutch from that idea also and relax. You may say, 'Then what should I do?' Unclutch from that idea also. You may feel bored; unclutch from that also!

Again and again, come back to that silence which is inside you. The first time you unclutch, you will be silent for two seconds, and then again a thought will raise. Just unclutch again.

As you practice unclutching, the gap between your thoughts will increase to ten or twenty seconds. Relaxing into that gap is what I call Living Enlightenment.

Living Enlightenment means resting into that gap, living inside that gap; not being affected by memory; not being disturbed with the good news and the bad news which are brought into your inner space.

Your life is nothing but a chain of good news and bad news that you receive from your memory. So unclutch from the good news and bad news which constantly come up in you.

I have a story about this good news and bad news.

An artist gets a call from the gallery that is exhibiting his work.

The gallery owner says, 'I have some good news and some bad news.'

The painter says, 'First tell me the good news.'

The gallery owner says, 'A fellow came in this morning and asked if your work is the kind that would increase in value after the artist's death. I said 'Yes' and that guy bought all fifteen of your paintings.'

The painter asks, 'That's great news! What is the bad news?'

The gallery owner says, 'The guy is your doctor.'

Constantly, good news and bad news are given to you by your memory. For the next eleven days, unclutch from both; you will see the ultimate intelligence gets awakened in your system. The ultimate pure energy starts flowing inside your inner consciousness.

This sutra gives you the essence of whatever I have expressed.

For the next eleven days, through unclutching, again and again come back to that silence which is inside you.