An Introduction to Hundred – Percent Memory
Introduction
Who does not want to be granted a hundred – percent memory ? The concept is appealing to students who are especially involved in studies that a modern day education throws up. Such a person who has acquired hundred percent memory will be able to exhibit the knowledge acquired during his study thoroughly in an examination and be prepared to take challenges, such an examination throws up.
It would not be difficult to acquire such a capability. However, techniques mastered by ancient scholars such as Rishis of India or great visionaries such as Socrates have to be brought in to acquire such a capability. Suffice to say that the two parts of the study – one, External and another, Internal- have to be understood to master the desired memory. When students understands this concept and puts it in practice, they will have a tool at hand that provides him with mastering hundred- percent memory.
What is Intelligence?
How do we define Intelligence? Normally, one attributes Intelligence to the common- sense a person has developed over a period of time and experience.
Let us look at the case of a student, who has passed a 7th standard examination and eligible to be admitted to 8th standard. What do we mean by a student passing 7th standard? It usually means that the student has acquired marks above 50% to be declared passed and promoted to next standard. What is the sanctity of this number of 50%? Why can’t this be 60%, 75 or even 100%?
Continuing on the same logic, one can conclude that a student having passed 7th standard will be in a position to read by himself the books of 8th standard, as the Standard of 7th standard would have laid foundation for understanding of 8th standard subjects. But rarely this is done and the student requires the assistance of a teacher to understand the subjects of the next class. The teacher, while teaching the new subject links it up with what the student has learned in the earlier class and thus provides a continuation that assists the student in bridging the gap and arriving at a logical conclusion.
What does Training do?
Now let us take an example of a student who has obtained first rank in Tenth standard and a first class graduate in physics. For all practical purposes, the tenth standard student would be considered more intelligent than a first class graduate in physics. Now if they are given a question paper containing questions from the syllabus from the final year of physics graduation course, the rank holder physics graduate may not be able to answer the questions.
In this example, one can see that the graduate in physics has scored over the Rank holder, who is expected to be far more intelligent. How did this happen? What has helped the graduate to do better than the rank holder?
The answer is --- Training. Training has contributed to the performance of the graduate who lacks in intelligence when compared to the rank holder. The additional years the graduate has spent in training him-self in the subject has helped him to score over the rank holder.
This proves that mere intelligence does not give you success. Training is essential, and hence superior to Intelligence. Training, thus, makes one overcome the deficiencies one has in intelligence and brings one at par with intelligence. If the external world has to evaluate a person based solely on intelligence, it would have conducted an IQ (Intelligence Quotient) test and would have recruited the person for the specific task that it is looking for. But evaluation is done on degrees where a student has trained himself in acquiring certain degree of knowledge. A person can become smarter, even though he is not intelligent, by the virtue of training.
How about Memory?
Now let us take yet another example. Two people are trained, and have graduated in physics. One is a rank holder, and the other just about average. Due to the prevailing employment trends, the one who has acquired a rank joins a business firm and becomes a salesman. Whereas the other takes up a teaching and keeps in touch with the subject in which he has graduated. After a couple of years, if asked to take a test in physics, who do you think would score better grades?
You know that the teacher who is in constant touch with the subject due to his teaching career will be in a far better position to reply to these questions on the subject that they graduated than the rank holder turned salesman. The rank holder who was a smart guy during graduation has become a dumb person after a couple of years since he has forgotten the subject and unfit to be called a graduate in physics.
Thus one concludes; Training is more important than intelligence and Memory is more
important than training.
What ails the present system of Education?
Unfortunately the present day Education system emphasizes on temporary memory, rather than a permanent memory, which was a hallmark of a Gurukul - the ancient Indian system of education. A Vedic scholar learning Vedic text by this system would remember and recite the text in all its originality till the end of his last breath. This is the system under which we remember the rhymes learnt when we were children even to the end of our lifetime. The time, age, and disease does not change the memory implanted in the Vedic scholar or anyone who has used such system of learning. It is as if the memory has gone in to the depth of their genes and every cell in his body knows every single Mantra that they learnt and the way they are pronounced. Such a study goes in to the depth of a person's sub-conscious level. The study completed at the conscious level is prone to severe loss, whereas the study that has gone deep in to the sub conscious level does not erode or corrode. Such a study proposes education not through external gateways, but through internal journey that pass through your internal discovery, a discovery that needs profound understanding of your inner self.
As against the Vedic texts we talked about in the Gurukul system of education, we take on the modern day education of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, which can be considered more mundane and more external in concept. When we combine these mundane subjects through the help of inner-self, we achieve great success. Such technique cannot be taught just five minutes earlier to examination. One has to practice and prepare one-self thoroughly before venturing into an examination, where his memory is fully tested.
Siddha Samadhi Yoga(SSY Program) delves into the depth of human consciousness and brings out in a person, the most efficient , intelligent and workable memory that is hundred-percent active.
Karna syndrome.
Most people from India or those who have studied Mahabharata know the great warrior Karna. They know how he met his end. He could not remember the Mantra taught by his Guru, at the nick of the time. He remembered the Mantra five minutes earlier, would have remembered five minutes later. But at that precise moment, he lost sight of the Mantra.
What really happened? And why he forgot the Mantra at the crucial moment? Even thought the Mantra was imbibed by Karna into his subconscious level, he forgot at the right time, when he needed it. In fact, this is a syndrome that - I call it the “Karna Syndrome”- that pegs all of us, especially the students. The children, know very well, what is to be written before the examination, and if asked after the examination, will be in a position to give appropriate answers. However, they fail to make use of this memory at the right time.
Why so? It is because, the conscious memory was disturbed. Like what happened to Karna- The wheel of his Chariot during the war at the most crucial moment got stuck in the mud. This is how external forces can play havoc when the student is answering a question paper. Thus the crux of the matter lies in the fact that the conscious mind has to be kept clear of any disturbance. How to keep it quiet? By practicing silence, in meditation keep your mind quiet before the start of the examination, may be for 10 minutes. Then the student enters into the state of Samadhi- (Silence) that of realm of only questions and appropriate answers. No external force shall disturb him to give out 100% memory performance. It is like a Surgeon entering the operation theater after checking that every bit of instrument is in place and he has to only concentrate on the job on hand.
Despite the use of technique, a student may get lesser marks; say 97; 98; or 95% This is due to the fact that one has to still use his or her intelligence. But look at the creditable performance the student has given. He has jumped from his earlier performance of 60 or 70%.
Conclusion:
Siddha Samadhi yoga(SSY) has a program that increases the memory level of a person, who is especially involved in studies. 100% memory can be achieved by the techniques propounded by the sages of Gurukul (Ancient Indian school system). The study has to be imbibed in a person at the subconscious level. This system can be taught in every school to every student to acquire long term memory.
