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Memory Is Dependent on Raag-Dwesh
With Intense Memory Comes Intense RaagDwesh!
I do not even remember what day it will be tomorrow, and yet this world still carries on. If I ask, there will be three people ready to say it is Sunday. There are many people to remember that.
Whom can you consider to have become a Vitarag? It is he who does not remember anything except for the Atma (Self), and all the tools that help him attain the Self.
The more the memory goes, the more vitarag you become. The Vitarag has no memory (smruti) of any kind. Not remembering the worldly life (vismruti) itself is moksha.
People try very hard to increase the power of their memory (smaran shakti). But there is no such thing as memory power. Memory power is a result of attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh). I do not have any attachment-abhorrence and therefore, I have no memory power. You can tell from your memory where you have attachment and where you have abhorrence. That is why people have tried to look for ways to forget the world.
Questioner: Would that mean, that if someone passes his exams with first class, he has a lot of attachment-abhorrence?
Dadashri: He will get higher marks in where his 'interest' lies. If he likes (has raag for) History, he will attain higher marks
