How to enrich our creative talents and memory?
=Pt.ShriRam Sharma Acharya
There are contrary claims too - of committing a thing to memory in
just one reading, or recollecting exactly every detail of what had been read,
or memories of long bygone times being still vivid in the mind etc. There is an
instructive anecdote, which will help in understanding these diametrically
opposite statements relating to memory function. This anecdote is from the life
of Vivekanand. Those days Swami ji was in pravrajya (ascetical wanderings)
within India. He had a gurubhai (brother disciple of a common teacher) as
companion.
A continuous routine of swadhyaya (self-study), satsang (company of
the truth seekers) and rigorous tapa (austerities) was being followed. Whenever
he could lay his hand upon a good book, Vivekanand would not miss reading it.
In every new place, his first search was a good library, and when he came
across one he would make full utilization of its treasures. At one place, in
course of this pravrajya, a library impressed him much and he decided to stay
at the place for an extended period. His gurubhai would fetch for him a variety
of books is Sanskrit and English, which the Swamiji would return the next day
after reading them. This routine of issuing fresh books daily and quite
voluminous ones at that- and receiving the same the very next day perplexed the
librarian.
He enquired of the gurubhai: " Do you take all these books
daily only to took over them cursorily? If so, I will show them to you here
itself, why carry so much weight all the way to your place of stay? Hearing
this remark of the librarian, the gurubhai replied in all seriousness: "It
is not as you think. My gurubhai does read these books seriously before
returning them". Surprised at this reply, the librarian said: "If it
is so, I would very much like to meet the gentleman". The next day,
Swamiji met him and said: "Sir, do not be perplexed. I have not only gone
through the books, but have also memorized their contents". Having said
so, he handed him back some previously issued books and repeated verbatim many
important passages from them. For the librarian, this spectacle was nothing
short of a miracle. Very humbly, he asked Swami ji the secret of his
super-human memory. Swami ji laughed and said: "There is no miracle or
mystery in this. It is simply a technique of mental concentration".
Rhanks GOD, Thanks Sadguru,
Shiv Sharma
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