Q : With your grace, these days I am doing jaap. Some changes are happening and I can watch my thoughts and just wonder from where these thoughts are coming. In my terms what is the hard disk and what is the RAM, it’s amazing when I see these thoughts and waves. Three days before, I saw a show and that image and dialogues of that TV show getting scrolls in my mind like the show live happening in my head. How can I enhance this power in a positive way? One thing Gurumaa, I can remember the show, then why do I forget when I try to remember the wire which is used in my gadgets two months ago?

A : Number one, our brain is the most fantastic gadget of this world, not created by any man but being used by man to create many more gadgets. Our brain has more than billion neurons, and each neuron is as the biggest library of any country. The huge size of information is stored in this one neuron, and we have more than billions and billions of neurons and each neuron again has combination connections, synaptic connections are established through the dendrites, through the spine of neuron and further multiple images, sounds, fragrances, words, experiences are stored. We always remember things by sound, by their color, by their form and mostly, what we gain, when we interacted with sensory objects. The experience is sum total of all the interaction which you had. Now this experience is going to be a key to open up all those information which has gone in your brain. It is not only what you are consciously learning but even your subconscious mind is learning all the times, for example if I ask you, how many steps did you take from your car to your house or from your bus stop to your house? You can’t give me the count but if you are hypnotized and your subconscious is awakened, you will not only able to give me the detail of how many steps you took, but also how many lamp posts were there, how many women or children passed by, what was the color of the bus, what was color of the sky, what was the texture of the road, what clothes you were wearing, every itsy-bitsy detail can be taken out of your subconscious.

The other thing which you have said is “why do I forget which I used?”. Well, there is short term memory and long term memory; this means that you’re short in short term memory.

You are keen on question, that is, what you can do to enhance this power in a positive way. I think you need to settle your mind more and you need to understand your thinking process more and you need to develop your visualization. For that do practice Yoga Nidra every day and also the Tratak meditation. You can order it from the web site. It will be delivered to you. Practice it every day.

Enjoy this wondrous gadget which you have, and this gadget is called brain. Know that the capacity of the brain is humongous. As you use your body muscle every day; you increase muscle and strength of the muscles. Similarly, more you use your brain; the capacity of brain to be used for various multi- functions increases. Keep on using your brain but use it consciously.