MIND : ITS MYSTERIES AND CONTROL : 13-7-1.

Chapter 13-CHITTA AND MEMORY-7-1.

7. POWER OF MEMORY-1.

Those who overwork mentally, who do not observe the rules of Brahmacharya and who are tormented by many cares, worries and anxieties, lose their power of memory soon.

When you show symptoms of losing your memory, as you grow old, the first symptom is that you find it difficult to remember the names of persons.

The reason is not far to seek.

All the names are arbitrary.

They are like labels.

There are no associations with the names.

The mind generally remembers through associations, as the impressions become deep thereby.



Even in old age, you can remember old events, as there are associations with events.

You can remember well in old age some passages that you read in schools and colleges.

But, you find it difficult to remember in the evening a new passage you read in the morning.

The reason is that the mind has lost its Dharana Sakti (power of grasping ideas).

The brain cells have degenerated.


Swami Sivananda
To be continued ..