Laws Of Memory : Part 20 : Law Of Repetition

Tarun Pradhaan

# Laws of Memory Part 20

Welcome to Pure Experiences. This is a series on Laws of Memory. We'll continue the discussion, and today we are going to talk about the Law of Repetition.

## 16 - Law of Repetition

The Law of Repetition says that the illusion or the experience or the memory repeats. You will find copies upon copies of the same thing in the illusion, which is simply the non-physical, non-mental memory, vibrating patterns in that memory.

And it is easy to see why. Patterns have a tendency to copy through resonance, because the vibration is repetitive. It repeats in a similar way, whether up, down, left, right. And then repetitionthe resonance also repeats, and the same pattern then repeats as a whole that is manifested as copies of structures.

So a very simple metaphor is waves on a lake, silent lake. If you drop a pebble, it causes ripples, waves. And it does not cause only one wave. It keeps waving and keeps producing the same pattern all over the lake. Given enough amount of energy, it will keep happening.

Similarly, in the universal memory, which is infinite potential and has infinite energy, any pattern continuously repeats. So how many copies can it form? And the answer is infinite. For how much time it will do? The answer is infinite.

So you can see more examples through direct experience. The crystals have copies of one unit repeating throughout the material. The crystal structure has a simplest pattern, and then that pattern repeats everywhere. And it itself is made up of copies of molecules, atoms, particles, and they repeat very regularly. The smaller the things are, more regular they become.

If you explore the physical world, you will see something similar. The landscape repeatshills and mountains and valleys, then rivers and more rivers, so on. The same kind of landscape keeps appearing.

In the physical universe, similar structures repeat like planets, stars, galaxies, and they are countless copies and copies.

If you explore the living matter, whatever is called life form, you will see same thing. A jungle is a living matter, vegetation. And a jungle is simply copies of trees of various kinds. Sometimes it is just one or two kinds. They go on repeating, forms a jungle. When you observe a tree, it is simply repetition of branches. Each leaf is a repetition of leaves, copies. Although they are not so regular, they are not exact copies, but they are similar. You can see that one pattern is copying with slight differences.

If you look at the structure of a leaf, you will see cells. Cells are copies, repetition of the same kind of cell in an organ and a part. If you check the birds, birds of a same species, they are copies with tiny differences. Animals' copiestheir bodies have cells. Cells are almost exact copies. Same thing repeats in every structure, and then the same structure then again repeats.

The important observation about humans: everybody is a copy. A baby is a copy of the parents. So that's why the Law of Repetition can be called Law of Reproduction. Structures have a tendency to reproduce, to copy themselves. So bodies are copies, slight differences. Human bodies or any animal bodies, they are made up of copies of cells. The cells have DNA, which is being copied since millions of years, same structure. Slight modificationsthey produce new structures, but then they start copying, they start reproducing.

So you will see that in the physical domain, or whatever our senses can capture, it is just infinite amount of copies, repetition of the same thing. Repetition is in the heart of every structure. Any new structure that you find is made up of something which is repeating.

Another good example is a house. A house is a repetition of rooms, and a room is a repetition of bricks. And if you look at the bricks under a microscope, repetition of various minerals, crystals. So in order to produce an illusion, nature uses copies.

So now we can jump into the psychological level or, common language, mental level. So the mental events or so-called subjective events repeat, just like the body repeats its activity: sleeping, waking, eating, washing. The activities of the life repeat, and they repeat at the mental level also. Same desires, they keep repeating in the mind. Similar thoughts repeat. If you read something, that reading is now impressed in the memory; it has made its copy. Now if you tell the same thing to somebody else, it becomes a copy. Let us say it is a news. You heard the news on TV. Already the news was heard by millions of people, so that information exists as millions of copies. And as soon as you hear it, another copy is made in the mind, in the memory. If you tell that news to somebody else if it is important, you made one more copy. And that person tells 10 more people. So that information spreads through copying. Same about books: they are just copies. Print many copies of the same thing. Same about information on the internet: too many copies. This video, if it is viewed 1,000 times, has already produced 1,000 copies and more information in the minds of the viewers. Whatever I'm saying, I'm simply copying what I was told.

The emotions copy. Same three or four kinds of emotions, they repeat throughout the life. And the emotions also reproduce. If you are happy, if somebody comes in contact with you, they also get that happiness through induction, resonance. If you're sad, it's more probable that somebody whom you know and meet, they also feel that sadness. The emotion copied itself.

So at the non-physical level, although we cannot see it clearly, but we can guess, there will be nothing but copies. Universes are copies. There are infinite number of those. Layers of memories, they keep copying at every level. Causal body creates copies by diverging into branches. Each branch becomes a copy. Then there are even greater structures of the memory, and they can instantly copy because it's all non-physical, timeless.

## Mutation

It becomes almost impossible to find something which is unique and original. Still, there is some originality, there is some uniqueness, which is found in the form of deviations. Simple things can copy exactly. There is hardly anything to change there. Variations are not much because there is not much to vary. But as the structures become complex, many things can be changed while copying, and slightly different structures appear as a result of that copy, faulty copy. That is called a mutation.

So new structures appear in the memory through mutation or, in technical language, you can call them faults. They are not faults of our everyday kind. Fault means something negative, something is faulty. These faults are a reason for production of new structures.

So when a crystal copies, sometimes there is a fault. And a crystal can break at that fault, produces something more, some unique rock or structure which will not resemble any other rock. But all these rocks are actually copies, slight difference only. Same way, leaves copy, but there are very tiny faults. And so, two leaves do not appear exactly the same, but you can see they are copies, same pattern. Same way, two trees are never the same, but essential pattern is the same. And a human baby is never exact copy of the parents. That is because of faults. Nobody wants to call it faults, I know. So we call it mutation, slight changes. Because it is so complex, the reproduced copy is still a human being, not the same.

And in the mental domain, we do get same desires, same thoughts, and same emotions, but slightly different. Sometimes the reasons are different. Sometimes the flavors are different. But mostly, same things repeat again and again in the mind.

At the level of causal body, there is a bad news that the incarnations, they repeat. It is the patterns in the causal body that are reappearing, reproducing. So something similar reappears with slight changes.

People often ask, "I don't know who I was in my past birth and what I'll do in my next birth." There is a lot of ignorance here, because the birth is not of the human being. Anyway, roughly we say like this. And the answer is very easy, actually. It is very easy to predict. For 99% of people, it will be a copy of your past life. Your current life is a copy of your previous birth. It is just repetition with slight changes, slight changes.

Most probably, in past life you had a house made up of wood. This life, you will have a house made up of concrete, slight changes in bodies, in mental constitution, psychology, habits. There are very strange theories about reincarnation, and due to karmic bonds, it is very logical if you apply logic on the theorynever to be confused with the truth; it is not truethat due to karmic bonds, karmic cycles, the same cycle repeats of birth and death. So much so that that manifestation of the form, let us say birth of a human being, happens in the same country, same community, even same family. And their relatives are often the same causal bodies that were related in the past lives.

For any spiritual person, this is a horrifying news. What? Nothing new is happening? And they do not see it as progress. And obviously, it is stagnation. It is just mindless repetition, mechanical. That is because of Law of Repetition. You cannot actually do anything about it. If the births do not repeat, there wouldn't be any birth.

So it is closely related to the Law of Cycles. The Law of Cycles says that the same thing goes on in time, but Law of Repetition says not only in time, in structure and places, and every experience is a repetition of some kind. You will always find something similar.

So a spiritual seeker is horrified by this revelation. The question will be, "Do you mean I'm not even progressing since 5,000 births?" And the answer is no. Whatever progress happens, happens through mutation or faults, tiny changes. And if a human being thinks that, "I desire this, I want this, I always wanted this change, this mutation, this fault," then it is labeled as progress. Otherwise, it is not progress. Sometimes it is regress if you don't want it, if you don't want it to be repeated in that way. So essentially, all there is change in the form of copies and repetition. If that change happens in a favorable way according to the biases and desires of a human being, we call it progress. All that ever happens is nothing but copies, reproduction.

## Rising Above Repetition

So how to rise above the Law of Repetition if you want to? It is all good, actually, by recognizing that repetition is responsible for creation. Without repetition, this tendency of the patterns to copy, nothing new can get created. And the new can get created only if there is slight mutation or fault or change.

So after knowing this very basic thingprobably everybody already knows ityou can intentionally introduce a mutation, depending on what you want to, what kind of pattern of repetition you want to break, assuming that that's what you want.

It is possible to rise above repetition by introducing a mutation. Do something slightly different every time you do it.

So from a spiritual seeker's point of view, all the habits are repetitions. Whatever we say is mostly repetition, and whatever think, whatever we think is mostly repetition. That is highly boring. So we knowingly introduce variety in life, and that mutation is such that it causes progress, progress towards your personal goal. If you don't have a goal, there is no question of progress, and copy is the goal. Endless reproduction is the only goal. Same thing goes on.

You must have seen those people who are dogmatic or traditional: they do not want even a slight change in their life, and they want their children also to continue the same thing forever. They are against any kind of change, so they are slaves of the Law of Repetition.

But some people, they introduce a change knowingly. It is in a manner of action, or habits, or the way they do something, or the talk. They talk about new things. They read new things. They invent new things, and they think new thing.

It looks very simple, but try to think something different, and you will mostly, you will fail 90% of the time. This is a psychological test. There is a psychological trick to make a person reveal their secrets or tell the truth, and that is used by many psychologists. And that is to keep asking the same question. Keep asking that person to repeat a scenario, event, or something. And because it is so difficult to come up with something new, eventually that person reveals. If you talk to a person for a long time, eventually whatever is in their mind comes out because there's nothing new. Cannot talk about anything new. Cannot pretend for long.

So the way to introduce novelty in your mind, in your thoughts, is to seek new experiences. Do not be rigid, repeating, boring person. Do not be dogmatic. Do not be traditional. Be an explorer. Be a rebel. Refuse to do everything in the old way, as far as possible without causing any kind of harm or appearing like an idiot.

So new experiences, they happen only when you explore. A good way to explore is travel physically. Those who travel, they are very interesting people. They have a lot to say. Those who stay at one place, they are very boring. They have nothing to say. Usually, what did Iwhat did they eat today? When are they going to sleep today? That's all they can say, actually. Constant repetition.

Second way to introduce novelty is meet new people, make new friends, talk to different people of different kinds, of all kinds. So those who do that, they gather not only experience; they gather knowledge. They come to know something new, which they never even thought about, never even imagined. And those who don't talk to anybody or they talk to only those who think like them, who are like them, these are called the backward mentality people. They don't like to mix with somebody who is even slightly different. They are simply repeating. It is not called progress. Eventually, the impermanence will cause total destruction in these kinds of people. We say they are like stone. They do not change. They remain the same person for the rest of their life.

So always explore more. Meet more people. Be broad-minded. Talk to everyone you find interesting. And yes, you need not talk to these boring people. They will simply feed you the same repetition.

These are the practical ways, but mental ways include reading more. Read various kinds of books, not only your favorite kind, not only one thing. Watch different kinds of movies. Listen to different kinds of music. Explore the music. Experiment. And obviously, always read the books written by great masters, great people. You will find great amount of novelty there, sometimes so much so that one book can change a person's life, which was otherwise getting wasted in mindless repetition.

Go and meet seekers. Go and meet other masters, gurus if you can. Go and meet intelligent people who think differently, who can create: artists, performers. Watch videos of different kind. Do not watch only one kind every day. It will rot your brain. Have a wide variety. Eat different kind of food, and so on, you see.

And from a spiritual perspective, contemplate on basic questions. Wipe out every belief that you have. Start from the beginning. You will come up with something new.

Do all these actions which are not repetitive with intention. Now you can actually use the Law of Repetition to get what you want. Repeat the new patterns that you want if you want them to appear in your life with strength, with energy, and with intention. Use your ego, power of the ego. "I'm doing this. I'm going to do this." And that will cause some novelty in the causal body. New tendencies, new impressions will be marked in the causal body. And that will cause remarkably different birth next time. This will be called progress, evolution.

## Balanced Mutation

It is a possibility that the mutations drive the causal body into degradation or complete destruction. It is possible. Both directions are possible. So choose wisely what kind of mutation or change, novelty you want to introduce within you. That must be selected very carefully.

There is a fine print, there is a warning somewhere in this law that there is a limit on how much novelty there can be. If it is completely different, completely mutated, then the original structure is completely destroyed. And sometimes it is not possible for it to reproduce. That reproduction power goes away. So a crystal structure can only mutate slightly so that it produces slightly different crystal. But if it mutates too much, it will produce something irregular, something ugly, or some liquid or gas or powder of some kind, not a beautiful crystal. Same way, if a tree mutates too much, it won't be able to do its job. It will die. It won't be able to live. And same with the creatures, including humans: if their copies are highly mutated, they cannot function. They die off. So mutation is in sync with the environment for a creature. If the environment is favorable for that mutation, it survives; otherwise, they die off.

So using the same law, same limitation, you need to change yourself mentally, physically, only this much, which is not beyond the limits, which is not strange and which is not odd. Like if you walk in a certain way that is lazy, you can change that walking style into something confident and quick, but you cannot start walking on both hands and feet like an animal. That will be too strange, too much mutation. So wise mutations, well-thought, and within limits. And the gradual evolution happens, gradual change happens, not too sudden. And you will be in a safe territory.

This will cause ultimately spiritual evolution by repeating the pattern of progress. You can see that we are using the Law of Repetition to cause a repetition which is desirable, which we want. So we are not breaking the law. We are leveraging it. We are copying in a desired way. That's all is possible within limits, and non-destructive, positive.

Bring about a positive change. If you change, you will see that things around you stop repeating, mostly. If you're doing one same job since 10 years, you will see that your life is boring repetition. That is how natural things are. Naturally, everything repeats, keeps repeating. But if you change your job, not suddenly, in a planned way, in a positive way, you will see new people appear in your life. You get new partners. You go to new parties, and you relocate to a new city. Patterns are not so repetitive, but what has repeated is, mostly the same thing that remains is you again have a job, you again have colleagues, you again have a house, you again have a party, and so on. So essentially, the overall pattern is repeating, but it is repeating in a slightly different way.

But we don't want too much. We don't want too much novelty, so we are happy with this change. And if you go on doing such calculated changes whenever you get bored, you will enter into the domain of spiritual novelty: new practices, new teachers, new paths, new books, new knowledge. And you can observe some impurities that keep repeating in your mind, body, whatever. A spiritual seeker does not want that, and you can mutate them. You can change them. Break them. Break the patterns that you don't want. Keep the patterns that you want. And by keeping, we always mean copying, reproducing, repeating.

So the law does not break, but we have bent the law in our favor. Slowly, after a few thousand incarnations, rebirths, the causal body will grow slowly, like a tree grows from a seed through copying, mutation. That is what everybody wants.

Once the human life becomes boring, repeating, no matter how much novelty you can introducebecause there can be only this much novelty in a lifetimethe pattern breaks. Then there are no more human births, and you're free to explore more of the universal memory by assuming new forms. The cycle continues, but in a slightly new way, hopefully in a better way.

This is the secret: your intention, your desire is the key. You have the choice.

So we'll continue the discussion on remaining Laws of Memory. Thank you for listening to Pure Experiences.

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Laws Of Memory : Part 20 : Law Of Repetition

Tarun Pradhaan