To deliberately recall painful or evil experience is a misuse of memory and a sin against your soul. “””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””” Avoid dwelling on all the wrong thi…
To deliberately recall painful or evil experience is a misuse of memory and a sin against your soul.
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Avoid dwelling on all the wrong things you have done. They do not belong to you now. Let them be forgotten. It is attention that creates habit and memory. As soon as you put the needle on a phonograph record,it begins to play. Attention is the needle that plays the record of past actions. So you should not put your attention on bad ones. Why go on suffering over the unwise actions of your past ? Cast their memory from your mind,and take care not to repeat those actions again.
Reflection on negative things is not the purpose of man’s God- given memory. Some people go on remembering all the suffering they passed through, and how terrible the pain was, from an operation that took place twenty years ago ! Over and over again they relive the consciousness of that sickness. Why repeat such experience ? To deliberately recall painful and evil experience is a misuse of memory and a sin against your soul.
If feel a deep resentment towards some person, and every day you recall that feeling and retaliate by mentally striking him, it will take you incarnations to erase the remembrance of that hatred. To become the victim of memory filled with ugly recollections is dangerous. Cultivate forgetfulness of past wrong and vengeful feelings, and encourage only the remembrance of good.
Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda.
The Divine Romance. P.155-156.
[The unknown potential of memory]