“Every morning the two ravens Hugin and Munin, are loosed and fly over Midgard; I always fear that Thought may not wing his way home, but my fear for Memory is greater.” (Translation of Grimnismal)
Thought is realization, experience, of a new situation/observation, while Memory is recurring of and old thought by virtue of observation of similar situation.
“The memory of old thought of the hidden impression is return memory of old thought of objects, which has been experienced or known.” (Translation of Sanskrit Sloka)
Are Memory and Thought are same?
Is it right to say that memory is thought?
Hugin and Munin cannot be one. Memory of Old Thoughts is Return Memory. Every cell has its structure of compressing memories. Memory of old thought of the concealed impression is return memory of old thought of objects which has been experienced or known with words. Return memory of old thought is caused by reproduction of the previous impression of an object without adding anything from other sources. However, there is always a chance for new thoughts, which is embedded in memory lane as new memory.
Hugin and Munin are two closely related entities, not the same though. Yet one can say that Memory is reminiscence, and thought is creation, or discovery of new experience to be embedded in memory lane.
In memory thought of the hidden impression, there is no tress passing beyond the object that has been thought. Return memory of thought is the memory of “seeds of deeds” which are embedded in the living beings operative system. That “program” helps the living being in developing/creating/discovering/inventing thoughts; it decides the thought pattern of the individual. The memory includes pattern of one’s language, memory of the thought blueprint of the lexis/signs that one uses and memory of one’s thought pattern of mental power.
The memory of desires/basic instinct which come up in the state of intellect of a living and non-living being and which put together ones innate inclinations also embrace memory thought of the hidden impression. The memory of persistent impressions of past continuously hang around in the mind and that decides the person’s result-oriented activities.
The basic fact is, human is incapable of having true memory of the old thought and neither he is able to reproduce his thought from memory lane in pure form. There always remains a difference between a biography and a live experience. Even while watching a cricket match live, the new impressions felt, cannot be achieved exactly same, by watching repeat of the same match. Thus, the memory of thought is not true but a false, very near to truth.
Individual’s natural proclivity is vague on the present memory of old thought. He keeps on hovering around the focus by remembering the past or daydreaming about the future recurrence of the memory of thought.
However, return of the old memory of thought or its interpretation in future is not true memory of the thought. The memory of thought, which is inconceivable with full truth and purity, not only brings unhappiness, but also brings agitation and apprehension by its effect. The incessant and cataleptic recurrence of countless memory of thought by most of human being reinforces the human being’s false appearance, biased behavior, hypocrisy, deceit, and duplicity. These phony insignia keep on changing their manner.
As long as, an individual does not manage reasonably true memory of thought about these old thought and does not vigilantly scrutinize and rationalize each memory of thought for that reason, he will persist to think and it is impracticable for him to come out of the restraints of these old memory of thought. He will become consistent to having memory of thought recur in his state of mind, which is flux. In meditation, the first step is to remove this flux and achieve a consistent unchanging non-hypocritical, unbiased reasonable true memory of thought. This memory of thought is not achievable by force, but by continuous rationalization of false-impressions of the old memory of thoughts and gaining the true memory of thought by virtue of reasoning and evidences. An individual must become cognizant of the memory of old thought, which are responsible for creating mendacity and suspicion/skepticism along with blind faith and hallucination in his flux. The vagueness that veils the truth about this memory of old thought is then to be refined and finally removed. What will remain, will be the pure thought or true memory of thought, which will be reasonable, rationale and focused. It will not be a flux, but a constant unchanging truth without any skepticism.
The false-impressions of memory of old thought of flux is refined and removed by reasonable and rationalized thinking of memory of old thought and not by any material object or power. That is, only the individual can remove that flux by introspection and reasoning. Other individual, book, or power or material cannot help him in achieving that.
Once the flux of the Impermanence State is refined and removed, the Individual achieves the true memory of thought. Then the Individual on the firm ground of non-hypocritical, unbiased, reasonable and rationale memory of thought becomes able to see further to create, develop, discover or invent new thoughts and enrich his memory lane with new experiences and set further true memory of thought.