Laws Of Memory : Part 13 : Law Of Resonance

Tarun Pradhaan

# Laws of Memory Part 13

Welcome to Pure Experiences. This is a series on Laws of Memory. Today, we are going to discuss the 10th law, which is the Law of Resonance.

## 10 - Law of Resonance

It is also called the Law of Attraction. This law means that similar patterns in the memory, they connect easily and naturally. It also means that a strong pattern in the memory will induce a similar pattern around it.

Vibrating patterns in the memory, they have a tendency to induce the same kind of vibration in other memory locations. It is similar to pull and push. Since the memory is one whole, interconnected, the pulling and pushing, or this disturbance of the emptiness, causes a similar pulling and pushing at some other potential site. This is called induction.

One pattern, one vibration induces another vibration that depends on how strong is the first vibration, the amplitude, and it causes a similar vibration of the same frequency. There can be a gap between the two; it's called phase difference.

The stronger the vibration, the larger is the pull and push, and so it causes bigger induction. If there are two competing vibrations, the one with bigger amplitude wins, because it pushes and pulls strongly.

Induction also means that if there is already a pattern in the memory with the correct frequency, these two patterns reinforce each other by pulling and pushing in a synchronous way, so they both grow. And that is what is called resonance.

There can be a partial resonance, and there can be a full resonance. So, if these patterns keep pulling and pushing with no limit, what can happen? It sounds like a very explosive situation, and that can happen sometimes. But fortunately, there are other laws that come in picture and balance out the resonance.

So the Law of Balance is one law; the Law of Polarity is another law which keeps the resonance in limits. It induces something negative. And the Law of Interconnectedness ensures that the excess energy is transferred out, does not concentrate in one place.

So, all this sounds really abstract right now, but we'll try to illustrate it with some examples, and we'll discuss some tips which are practical.

So, in everyday words, you can say that the Law of Resonance causes similar events because the underlying vibrating patterns tend to reinforce each other, or tend to attract each other. When we say it causes similar events, it actually means that it produces similar experiences.

The Law of Resonance is nothing but an explanation for similar kind of experiences that are mostly seen. So, it's called attraction, but it also includes repulsion. Repulsion is a resonance of a negative kind, or a opposite kind. It happens when a vibrating pattern diminishes something which is already vibrating, which is another vibrating pattern. It pushes it away. That can happen when there is enough resistance in the other pattern. So the first pattern is actually attracted to something else. It appears as if the first pattern is being pushed away by the second. So ultimately, it is resonance, but sometimes it looks like that instead of attracting, they are repelling, but it is getting attracted in a opposite direction, that's all.

So, what happens if there is resonance? In terms of energy, we say that if there is similarity among memory patterns, maximum energy is transferred. People who study physics know this. The antenna on the radio, if it is of correct length, resonates with the transmitter. And when we say it is catching the signal, it is actually vibrating at the same frequency as the transmitter. And now, a lot of energy of the transmitter is accumulated there. It conducts it to the receiver, radio receiver. This is the practical example. If they are not similar, there is still energy transfer, something is conducted, something is received, but not so much.

Resonance is the condition when the reinforcement is optimal. This is dictated by the similarity, similarity of vibrating patterns, similarity of frequency and phase.

## Resonance in Manifested Existence

So, how is this seen in manifested existence? How it is manifested in our daily lives?

Since events in the world, our bodies, and our thoughts, other objects, they are nothing but vibrating patterns, it is seen often that because of some similarity, resonance happens.

So, we can have a direct experience of this in case of sounds. If there are two string instruments in a room, and you pluck one of the strings of one instrument, you will find that the second instrument is producing the same note because the sound travels from one instrument to another through air. This sound is picked up by the second instrument, and exactly that string starts vibrating which is tuned to the same note because a lot of energy gets transferred there, because they are tuned similarly.

So, this is a well-known phenomenon in physics: resonance. It happens wherever vibrations are present. If it goes beyond certain limit, it causes complete destruction. So, that's why there is some built-in limits into stable vibrating patterns, so they do not go beyond the limit. Something or the other mechanism restricts the vibrations.

So, a good example of resonance in the body is suitable food. If you eat something which is good for the body, the body produces a very good feeling. It is the healthy food for the body, and it responds by absorbing that food, and growing, becomes healthy and beautiful. And if there is something which is unhealthy, which the body does not like, it produces a bad feeling, and does not resonate with that food. And if you keep eating, that will produce some kind of illness. So, good feelings are associated with resonance or attraction.

So at the level of the mind also, resonance produces good feelings. If you want something and you see that object or the person, immediately it produces happiness, because that thought pattern or that emotional pattern somehow matches with your perception. The resonance is in the form: "Yes, I want this." And just like in the case of food, the body moves towards it, tries to grasp it, tries to ingest it. The mind wants to make it its own part, and that is mostly not possible with people and objects, but the physical distance will decrease, and probably that is why it is called attraction.

But if the object or the event is something which the mind can consume, the mind consumes it through senses. It can be a beautiful music, beautiful voice or any voice, or a picture, or a sculpture, movie, or natural beauty of surroundings. It is seen that that person is mesmerized, cannot let go of it, keeps looking at it, keeps listening to that. The mind is consuming it because it wants it. Wanting means there is a resonance now. The pattern outside is similar to the desire inside. And yes, it produces good feeling, which is called happiness. It produces a specific kind of behavior which everybody will recognize: the person clings to it.

There is another example of resonance in case of human beings. We are mostly interested in humans, not in physical objects or musical instruments. Probably some people are interested in those things, but how the laws apply to ourselves, humans, is usually more important.

So the resonance is seen in case of actions. Which actions do I want to do? Remember the word "want." It is related to resonance, attraction. And the answer is very clear: I want to do that to which I resonate more. And that is seen as likeness for doing that. The person says, "I like doing this." And when that action is done, which is aligned with the desire inside the mind, and which is suitable for the body, for that body, we see that that action happens almost spontaneously. There is a maximum energy transfer. The person will do it tirelessly. That person will not get tired doing it, will not resist, will want more of it. The action simply flows, and that action is repeated more and more.

So you can discover some kind of concrete example in your daily life, in your own experience. This is resonance in action, literally. The word "alignment" is very important here. Alignment simply means that the patterns match, they align. Whatever action is happening is completely aligned with the desire of the person, the goal of the person, and the ability of the person, body of the person, and it is producing fruits, it is giving results that are beneficial for the person. This is very ideal case, and it is alignment throughout. The path of vibrations is unhindered, no obstacles. The energy is flowing effortlessly. It is a very good case of resonance. It is almost ideal case.

In practice, there can be some limits, because resonances has built-in limit, otherwise it causes complete destruction. So it is obvious: if you are attracted to a food, but you keep consuming it, that is not good for the body. So there is some limit somewhere where you stop it. Same with the action: there is some limit where the action becomes boring, repetition becomes boring, does not feel good, so you stop it. But it can repeat.

Same thing applies to mental actions, like reading. If you are aligned to a book, if you resonate with the author, or if you like that kind of story or subject, you keep reading it, you keep consuming it mentally, you keep doing it, and you don't get tired doing it. You feel good. That is another kind of resonance. The patterns of information in the book, they produce the kind of thoughts and feelings that you want. You are aligned, so that keeps happening. Sometimes people say, "I resonate with this book." That's what they are talking about. It is effortless; it is very natural.

What is the effect of resonance here, in action? Mostly, the action will be successful. If you do that to which you are already aligned to, if you do something that resonates with you, the result is mostly success. And you can verify this using your own experience. It looks right, and it produces results. It produces beauty, completion, perfection.

So it does not mean that you will never read anything else, or you will never do anything else. A little bit of resonance will be seen there, but it won't transfer maximum amount of energy. It won't produce that kind of power.

## Dissonance

So, let us take a look at the opposite side of resonance, and it is called dissonance. And you must have guessed: whenever the patterns are not aligned, they do not match, there is no similarity, or sometimes they are exactly opposite of each other, they oppose, you get a bad feeling.

You can take the example of foods and all. Even before eating that food, you already get a bad feeling from that, simply looking at that. And you get a bad feeling when you see that kind of person, or that kind of object.

What is the symptom of dissonance? The body withdraws. The body avoids. Either the person runs away, walks away, or turns their face. Dissonance.

Now, many students of psychology and all will resonate with this topic here, because you can check from the behavior of the person what is happening. The person hesitates, say, "I don't like it." It produces suffering of some or the other kind.

Same with the mental perceptions: if the mind does not like anything, if there is dissonance, the mind shuts down. The person closes their eyes, looks somewhere else, stops listening. The mind goes in daydreaming mode because it is trying to escape, and so on.

So, simply by looking at somebody, you can tell whether it is a case of resonance or dissonance, and then you can predict what will happen. Yes, if you're facing somebody and that person faces away, or assumes a gesture which is protective, defensive, you will come to know that probably nothing is going to happen here.

And the sentences that people say about the situation: "I did not resonate with that person." Or in common language, they will say, "I don't like him. I don't like her. She did not like me." The nonverbal behavior is enough to know what is happening in the mind and the body. Sometimes the mind won't say much, but the body cannot usually pretend. So, what the person is saying is less important than what the body is saying. The body usually does not hide whether it is resonance or dissonance. And many who are experts, behavioral psychology, they know all these secrets: nonverbal communication.

So, what happens if there is dissonance? Obviously, failure happens. The person does not want to do that job, they don't like that action, and a lot of resistance comes up in the person. The resistance, because it is all patternspatterns of energy, patterns of vibrationthe resistance can show up in very strange ways sometimes.

For example, if you don't like a subject, you don't like a movie, or if you don't like a person, the resistance shows up as headache. Your head will start aching. Sometimes the resistance shows up as some problem in digestion. If somebody has bad feelings for you, it shows up somewhere in the body or mind. That is because of interconnection and as a resonance or dissonance.

So, instead of tirelessness and smoothness, there is resistance. If somebody does not like some kind of job, even if you beat that person, punish that person, they won't do it. If they do it, they do it very poorly, because there is a lot of resistance.

Sometimes the resistance shows up as negative language. You talk to somebody, there is dissonance, probably there is no way to guess, because people are expert in hiding things. But you can count the negative words the person says, and you can judge easily. There will be higher than normal number of negative words in their talk. And you can guess now, you can predict the future: nothing much is going to happen there.

We can identify these people who don't resonate with anything. We call them negative people. Wherever they go, they spread negativity, cause dissonance. That is possible. Sometimes their presence itself is sufficient to cause a disaster. They are called unlucky people.

So, that is because the dissonance finds a way. Same for resonance: the resonance, the attraction finds a way. You cannot cage it; you cannot contain it. If somebody is attracted to something, some way or other they try to get it, they go there, they won't do anything else except that.

Same way, dissonance finds a way. It causes some kind of damage somewhere. If there is dissonance within you, it will cause some kind of sickness, mental issues, suffering of some kind.

So, resonance is important for people, and obviously, it causes a lack of energy. It does not matter how healthy you are; it does not matter how positive your attitude is. If you are not resonating with the situation, or action, person, or object, you will immediately feel low energy. You will feel tired. You will feel demotivated, although all the physical and mental, bodily parameters are fine.

What happens in case of resonance? Even if you are not well, suddenly you get the energy, you feel healthy. Even if you're suffering, you're sad, if there is resonance, immediately you start feeling happy. The sadness goes away.

So, these people are called sensitive. There is a lot of sensitivity. The energy is always on a triggertrigger-happy. Only a tiny thing needs to go wrong or right, the energy starts dancing. It is a problem sometimes, but it's okay if you can control it.

Similarly, sympathy, empathy is a result of Law of Resonance. If you see somebody suffering, you actually feel that suffering. These people are called empathetic, sympathetic, sympathetic resonance. And if somebody is happy, simply by looking at that person, you become happy. So, highly sensitive people.

There is a different kind of person also. We should not talk about these things too much: that if somebody else is happy, this person becomes unhappy, feels jealous, or angry, hate. And you can guess it: yes, this is the case of dissonance, and they will repel. There will be repulsion. So, probably there is word for that: opposite of empathy, opposite of sympathy.

Ordinary people call it love: the Law of Resonance, attraction, and maximum energy transfer. Broadly, very roughly, you can call it love. And yes, its opposite is possible: hate.

## Spiritual Resonance

So, in the context of spirituality, I'll say a few words. Resonance is very important to understand, "What is my path?" If you do not resonate with a specific path, there are chances of failure. There are chances that you won't be successful there, no matter how nicely you do the practice, no matter how much knowledge you get, no matter how many books you read.

There has to be a spiritual resonance that is connected to the life goal of that seeker. Now, we are not talking about ordinary people here. Probably they don't have any life goal; surely no spiritual goal. So, if you have a spiritual goal, you must find a path that resonates with that goal, else it will be waste of time.

And yes, feeling is a very good indicator, although we should use our intelligence, check whether there is resonance or not, but feeling gives you the first indication: low energy, resistance, tiredness. If you face these things while walking on your spiritual path, probably that path is not good for you, and you are not good for that path, because there is no problem in the path itself. It is a mismatch, that's all there is.

So, if you are on the correct path, it will give you good feeling, obviously. You will be successful. Whatever you do, you will be successful, naturally. You won't feel tired. You won't feel disgusted. You will want to do it again and again. You will leave everything for that path. You walk on that, or you run on that path, tirelessly. That is the indication that you have found your path, spiritual path. And the opposite indications means you must find something else.

And the same applies to the guru, the teacher, or the master. So good feeling, yes, again: how much good feeling do you want in case of your guru? It must be just like love. You must fall in love with your guru. Otherwise, he or she is not the optimal guru, not the ideal guru. You must feel an attraction, resonance, that is manifested as likeness or love. Then the surrender happens effortlessly.

But if you're getting bad feeling, you don't like even one word of that guru, there is a lot of resistance in you, you don't want to say namaste, or you don't want to bow downwhatever is the tradition in that countryyou don't want to pray to that guru, "Please teach me," you don't want to say that, that means that person is not your guru. He's not your master. And no matter what you do, how much you pay, no matter how much you pay or how much fake respect you show using some kind of flowery language, that master will not accept you, because they know more than student.

Probably it will take two minutes for that master to find the dissonance or resonancetwo minutes, because they are the masters. Sometimes they will look at your face and they will decide whether I want to teach this fellow or not. Sensitivity is necessary in spiritual matters.

So, usually, when choosing the spiritual path, practices, or gurus, the emotions, feelings, resonance, dissonance, these matter most compared to the looks, and the logic, and the intelligence, and the knowledge of the guru, or what happens on that path, whether it is logical or not, whether it is scientific or not. These things come later. The initial success depends on resonance.

Once you know that this path is for me, you can do the surgery on it: take whatever you like, leave whatever you don't like. Same for the teachers.

There is one more angle to resonance here: if there is resonance with the practices and you are achieving success on your path, you're progressing, that means a clean system. That means the channels from the mind through the body, through the world, and through the higher layers of the mind, they're clean. The pipelines are open. Kundalini people will understand this kind of terminology.

But if there is dissonance, you will find a lot of resistances. In terms of path of knowledge, we say there are impurities now. Impurities, obstacles, and they will manifest in even stranger ways compared to the normal person, very strange. It is almost supernatural sometimes. The resistances find a way, even they bypass the laws of physical world sometimes, because it is all nonphysical, ultimately.

Sometimes the resistance will manifest in dreams. And similarly, attraction or assistance or resonance can also manifest in dreams. If it is very, very strong, you will get positive indications in the dreams if there is resonance. And the most positive indication that many people report, many seekers, is presence of their master or their guru in the dreams, a presence of some higher beings, spiritual beings, gods and goddesses in their dreams.

If they are very able, if they are very talented, the resonance reaches the highest, higher dimensions of existence, higher layers, and they get these kind of experiences which is called spiritual experience in ordinary language.

Now you can see the importance of resonance, how important this is, and how to identify: is there any resonance or not? And yes, obviously, the dissonance will produce hellish experiences sometimes, not for everybody. And then you must use logic and rationality, your intelligence, to connect the dots. It can be a chance event. It can be coincidence of some kind, but if it is happening every day, every time, majority of the times, then yes, the logic says it is dissonance or resonance, whatever, and you get a green signal. You get a go-ahead: spiritual path. Probably these people will be successful without much effort. Yes, dissonance means there will be too much of effort, low energy, and complete failure.

So, hopefully, this information about resonance will be useful for some listeners.

## Rising Above Resonance

So now, how to rise above resonance? That does not mean that we stop the resonance, we kill it, or we stop the dissonance. No. Rising above means we use the power of resonance to get what we want, to fulfill our desires.

So, we discussed resonance briefly in the last part on Law of Interconnectedness, and we saw that the connections happen naturally wherever there is resonance. They reinforce each other. The energy transfer happens. So, if you want to connect to something, some higher power, let us say, or your master, or your lover, or you want money or something, you see, you need to vibrate correctly. You can take advantage of this.

And as we discussed in the last part, how to vibrate correctly: since resonance happens between similar entities, similar memory structures, similar vibrations, you need to induce those vibrations knowingly within you, within your mind, within your body, or around you, in your environment, and the magic of resonance then happens.

So the good news here is we, as a human, have this ability to change our vibrating patterns. This is a big power already, supernatural power. You want to connect to somebody who is healthy, wealthy, and happy: you have the potential in you to attract that by working towards health, wealth, and happiness. A little bit is okay, because once the resonance strikes, it will grow automatically. But if you're completely opposite of that thing, whatever you want, there will be dissonance. Yes, natural, and you'll never get it.

So learn to vibrate correctly. Learn to transform yourself so that you get what you want. It is not magic, but it is like magic, seems like magic. So the key is self-transformation: you make yourself worthy of resonance, you make yourself capable of resonance. Tune your instrument so that you vibrate at the correct note. Instead of discord, you produce a concord, then resonance happens.

So magic, or occult, or tantra is not about changing something outside. You can try, but it's almost impossible. Self-transformation is easy, and is always possible. Then the Law of Resonance comes in and gives you whatever you want. It is so easy, you see. You always wanted that spiritual path, you always wanted that guru, now work on yourself, make yourself worthy. Transform, tune your instrument, induce the same kind of vibration that you want.

If you are lacking, if it is not naturally present, or if it is weakthe pattern is weak in you, the energy is weak in you, there is less power in youyou can use your intention, you can use the power of your will ("intention" means will) to bring about self-transformation, and then the rest of the matter is handled by resonance.

If you're already resonating, you got the lottery, don't need to do much. Everything happens smoothly, naturally, magically. It just happens. You just do it, it flows, effortlessly. But still there is some scope of transformation if you want to increase it, if you want more of it. Yes, you can. There is no limit to self-transformation, but obviously there is some limit to resonance.

So, how to resonate? You must have a desire first of all, for that kind of event, that kind of object, that kind of person, that kind of action, job, that kind of path, that kind of people, ascended masters, gods and goddesses. Whatever you want, you see, everything can be achieved. Human beings are very powerful if they recognize their power. They don't remember it now.

So, you need to open up. Open the channel, unclog the pipeline, clear it, clean it. Purification is the key here. And then the energy transfer happens smoothly if you are pure. Those who don't understand what I'm saying, they probably need to start from the beginning: what is impurity, what is purification, how to do it, and so on. It is a complete subject in itself. So, on path of knowledge, the biggest impurity that is seen is ignorance, and we start there. Once that big pipe is clean, everything else gets automatically cleaned. The current of energy is so strong.

You need to simply say yes. Open up. Get rid of your mental blockages, resistances, by your own power. Be open for change. If there is no change, if you don't want to change, still want a connection, or resonance, or want your desires to be fulfilled, it is impossible. You must be ready to change.

The fulfillment of desire, or getting what you want, is not an isolated event. Probably you must have guessed by now, after knowing all these laws that we discussed, it won't happen in isolation. Every event that happens in your life changes you. It is interconnection. So yes, if you change something, that will be reflected outside: as within, so without. And if outside changes, it will influence you; opposite is also true.

So there will be change. If your desire is fulfilled, yes, it will produce some kind of change in you. There will be karmic consequences of that. If the desire is not fulfilled, it will change you in some way. There is always consequence, according to Law of Action. So, if you don't want to change, no possibility of resonance, no possibility of dissonance also, or no possibility of the dissonance going away. It will trouble you a lot. So, be ready to change. Open up. Open the doors, accept, surrender.

And yes, praying etc. will help, because praying is what? It is expression of your openness. This is helpful when you want to connect. You go and pray, stand there with folded hands: "Please accept me. Please teach me. Please help me." This simple prayer is very powerful, more powerful than saying something in Sanskrit, singing songs of prayer. If you open your heart and say two words of prayer, they have a lot of power and energy. They carry a lot of vibration, energy, and that connects you to whatever you are trying to connect to.

Yes, it should not be taken only in positive way. You can obviously connect to something positive like this through resonance, but it is possible that you can connect to something negative. If there is too much negativity in you, you will connect to something negative without much effort. So people who are always unhappy, always angry, always violent, without their doing anything, they are connected to that those fields of mind which are negative. We call it the evil. They have... they have natural ability to be evil.

So negativity is not always dissonance or negative resonance; it is positive resonance, but with something which is negative. Probably for that person, it is the desired action, but hopefully for many, it will be not desired, undesired.

Identify the negativity in you. The negativity is causing dissonance, and so the other party refuses to connect. They hang up whenever you call. They are sensing your negativity, whether it is a person, your partner, or whether it is the guru or the guru field. Something went wrong. It is mostly the negativity, something which is not matching, something which is not similar. They are not birds of the same feather. So just like the sayingthere are many sayingslike attracts like.

Sometimes the resonance happens between complementary vibrating patterns. One will complement the other, one will complete the other. Initially, it can be dissimilar, but if the push and pull is in the right direction, it causes resonance. So, you should understand the difference between negativity and complementary patterns. Anyway, that is too advanced.

Be the change that you want to see outside. Become like that which you want to get.

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So, we have completed half of the laws of memory out of 20, and we'll continue the discussion on other 10 laws in coming parts of this series. Thank you for listening to Pure Experiences.

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Laws Of Memory : Part 13 : Law Of Resonance

Tarun Pradhaan