Memory
(Medhananda:) “Everything is stored in the form of vibrations. All memory is an exteriorization.”[1]
(Mother to Satprem, 1956:) “One should beware of the charm of memories. What remains of past experiences is the effect they have had in the development of the consciousness. But when one attempts to relive a memory by placing oneself again in similar circumstances, one realizes quite rapidly how devoid they are of their power and charm, because they have lost their usefulness for progress. ”[2]
(Mother to Satprem, 1962:) “Many, many things in my life have completely vanished – I don't remember them any more, they're gone from my consciousness – everything that was useless. But there is a very clear vision of everything that was preparing the jiva for its action here.”[3]
(Mother to Satprem, 1960:) “These things from the past ... it's rather odd – now, once they come and I've spoken of them, they get erased. As if they were returning one last time to say goodbye before going for good.
All these ‘memories’ (actually they're rather pictures) seem to be coming forward to show themselves with all the knowledge, truth and HELP they represent; they come to say, “There! You see, this is the origin of that” – a whole curve. Then once I've seen it, it's gone.
One day, as an experiment, I tried to remember something from the past, for I was interested in what it contained; I tried – impossible! It had been cleaned out, it was gone. So I understood that these things come, they show themselves (you have to be ATTENTIVE and know what purpose they have served) and then they go away.
I have so totally forgotten a whole world of incidents and events that when someone reminds me of something (the people around me have lived with me, so they've seen things and remember them), I get the feeling that they are speaking of someone or something else – it no longer has any connection with me at all. And it's the same with everything, whether near or far, which has brought to my consciousness whatever it had to bring, lost its utility and – disappeared. Only, these memories probably still have some utility for the others, so they remain. But for me it's completely erased, absolutely, as if it had never been.
It's the only way to forget.
People often try to forget the past, but it doesn't work. Only once it has brought all the lessons that it was meant to bring into your life (it's decanted, so you see the thing in its deepest truth), is its utility finished, and it disappears.
I am convinced that at heart karma is simply all the things we haven't used in the true way that we drag along behind us ... If totally and clearly we have learned the lesson which each event or each circumstance ought to have brought, then it's finished, its utility is gone and it dissolves.
It's an interesting experience to follow and observe.”[4]
- ↑ On the threshold of a new age with Medhananda, p.152
- ↑ Mother's Agenda 1951-1960, 28 October 1956
- ↑ Mother's Agenda 1962, 25 July 1962
- ↑ Mother's Agenda 1951-1960, 5 November 1960
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