Divide and Link: Robust Memory Techniques from Vedic Learning By Krishna Prasad Miyapuram When we recall a mobile number such 9849524750, we rarely recall the entire number instantly. Further it is very unlikely that we remember individual digits of the number (e.g: 9,8,4,9,5,2,4,7,5,0). This is because we might have actually remembered this sequence as 98 495 24 750 or as 98 49 52 47 50 or some other combination of chunks. Chunks are groups of digits, in this case, that are easily remembered. Another example is the PIN codes used by the postal department. The six digit PIN codes are naturally written as a pair of three digit numbers such as 500 036. The idea of chunking can be used for remembering not only numbers but other things as well. George Miller, in 1956, has suggested that our short term memory has a limited capacity of being able to remember 7±2 items at a time. This is called as working memory. By using chunking, we decrease the number of items holding in the working memory. For example instead of remembering ten individual digits of the mobile number in the above example, we would remember fewer (4 or 5) chunks of numbers. There various kinds of memory training and mnemonic systems that can be used for remembering large numbers. One popular example is to remember the value of pi. The number of alphabets in each word of the phrase “How I wish I could calculate” would give us 314159, which can be used to remember the value of pi upto five decimal places. In this article I focus on the chunking method, which put simply corresponds to dividing the amount of information into chunks and then linking them together with examples from Vedic learning. Read more: http://bit.ly/2mvxlVC

It was Max Mueller a German scholar, settled in Oxford, who first published a text of the Rig Veda in English in six volumes during 1849-1874. Very often and aptly, he used to sign his name as Moksha Mueller Bhatt.

Nigam sir.. is this true about Mueller being the first publisher of the Vedas?

Rare Book Society of India It's possible to do it again. If you provide resources to record, I will do it again for you. I have team of students who can chant along with me.

Coming to Mueller, is this a fact or a propaganda that British had appointed the man to malign and uproot the basis of Hinduism by upholding a distorted version of the Vedas. Mueller has to his credit of writing some 50 volumes of the Sacred Text. I find this information needs to be verified with some authority, given Mueller had remained a controversial figure in the Christian theological kingdom. He was quite a threat there.

You have the Sikshā technique- of pronunciation. 6 schools of Sikshā produced 20 different combinations of Veda recitation, and different sects of Vedic scholars have responsibility to accurately preserve the Shruti. You can then recreate any section if you want, by triangulation and removal of redundancies- this same method is applied in modern machine learning development.

Very curious about how it was determined that the original Vedas carried through generations was exactly the same as the first. Which should mean the original is also available to compare and verify so why must we settle for a copy?

and then came the guys with speech impediments who screwed the message as they spoke with pebbles in the mouth like Demosthenes?

"Without a single error"? Far fetched .Many modifications and insertions were made as per the whims and fancies of the "carriers ".

I don't who have commented but in short i would like to point out the sublime truth in kaliyuga the learning dwindled and as such vyasa compiled vedas oral tradition was a relayrace

Can you tell about ashta vikriti in details . . .Or the source about the technic to recite . . .

Vedas were published before that but were destroyed in fire

Beautiful. Gopalaswamy Ramesh, bet you will love this.

without a single error?

We must change our early education back to oral methods till memory gets developed.

Vedas are very much new. Drafted in AD

V good And valuable Informatin--ty Raje-God Bless--

Very nice. Intimation about the Veda.

The other name of vedas is "श्रृति".

VEDO NARAYANO HARIHI...........KOTI KOT VANDAN...

Thank to our ancestors

Mind boggling .. awesome !!

Geetha Sethuram You'd love this

Shubham Ojha ye pd bhai

Prithwijit Bhattacharya

The Avadhana tradition of India is a remarkable test of memory, grammar, languages and imagination. We have a scholar who successfully completed three thousand problems in succession from memory'. Even the then PM took part in Trisahsra Avadhana. Many Telugu and Sanskrit teachers can do ashtavadhana and sathavadhana.

Shruti and smriti was the essence of learning then. Very much like those nostalgic old songs that gets etched in our memory though not sung for years.

Is there anyone now who memorized the vedas?

In age of computer we are losing the strength of our memory

This is a wrong concept spread by European scholars like Max Mueller

Rajarshi Nandy eita dekho. You knew about this?

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Yes there are some wonderful things of the past in India.

एक आठवड्यापूर्वीच मी हा व्हीडिओ पाहिला होता,खूप सुंदर आणी आपल्याला अभिमानास्पदच आहे ,ही पूर्वजांची ठेव.