Why Intelligence Is Beyond Thought and Memory
Parth:
The whole existence is memory.
There is nothing here that is not shaped by memory. What you call creation, evolution, culture, civilization — all of it is a vast accumulation of memory.
Memory is not just what you remember from yesterday. Memory is a colossal storehouse — from the moment life first learned how to survive, adapt, and replicate itself. How human beings lived in caves, how they clothed themselves, how they ate, how they protected themselves — all of this has layered itself into an immense reservoir of memory. Over thousands of years, survival created complexity; complexity created sophistication; sophistication created systems. And today, humanity is living inside this enormous silo of accumulated memory.
You may believe you are acting freely, but most human activity is nothing but memory playing itself out in newer arrangements.
Look at something as simple as a tool in your hand. You think you are using it consciously. But if there was no memory of how your forefathers used that tool, if that knowledge had not been passed on and refined over generations, you would not know what to do with it. Even before human beings, if another species had not experimented, failed, adapted, and learned how to use limbs beyond mere survival, your hands would not function the way they do today.
So, what you are today — physically, psychologically, emotionally, intellectually — is a continuity of memory.
There is nothing wrong with this. Memory is what made human civilization possible. But the problem begins when you become steeped in it.
When a human being lives entirely out of memory, life becomes repetition. You may call it progress, but inwardly there is no freshness. You think new thoughts, but they are rearrangements of old data. You feel emotions, but they are conditioned responses. You desire, hope, fear, imagine — all of it is memory looping back upon itself in endless cycles.
If human intellect had not evolved beyond survival memory, we would still be living as creatures driven purely by instinct — functioning efficiently, but unconsciously. But something else happened. Emotion evolved. Intellect evolved. And with that came an irresistible urge — to step out of the shell that memory has built around us.
This is the unique possibility of being human.
As a human being, you have the capacity to see the entire storehouse of memory — from its origin to its last consequence. You can either live inside it, be shaped by it, suffer it, and repeat it…
or you can step out of it.
You can live as an animal — governed by memory.
You can live as a cultured human — refined memory.
You can live as a liberated being — free of memory’s compulsions.
If you live by memory, memory will dictate everything:
your likes and dislikes,
what comforts you and what threatens you,
what you accept and what you reject.
Memory hopes, desires, compares, imagines.
Memory moves in loops — endlessly rehearsing the past in the name of the future.
Freedom does not mean destroying memory. Freedom means not being ruled by it.
When memory no longer decides who you are, what you feel, and how you act, what remains is pure intelligence — unburdened, alert, and alive. This intelligence does not react; it responds. It does not repeat; it perceives.
This is what we refer to as samsara and sannyasa.
Samsara is not family or society — it is being entangled in the storehouse of memory.
Sannyasa is not renunciation of the world — it is freedom from memory’s tyranny.
One lives inside memory.
The other stands free of it.
When memory loosens its grip, life is no longer a psychological struggle. It becomes a conscious movement — not driven by past impressions, but guided by clarity.
This is not philosophy.
This is a possibility available to every human being — if you are willing to see memory for what it is, and not mistake it for life itself.
Why the Self Is a Bundle of Memories
Look at yourself very carefully, not intellectually, not philosophically, but actually, as you are from moment to moment. What you call yourself is a complex structure of memories—experiences gathered over time, pleasant and painful, flattering and hurtful. This whole accumulation you have named “me.” When someone insults you, a reaction arises; when someone praises you, another reaction arises. You call both reactions yourself, though they are contradictory. So what is this entity that you so easily call “I”? If you observe without choice, you will see that thoughts arise out of memory, emotions arise out of memory, and your likes and dislikes are nothing but conditioned responses of the past. Anger comes and goes, pleasure comes and goes, sorrow comes and goes, yet there is an awareness that notices all these movements. That awareness is not anger, not pleasure, not sorrow. The very fact that you can observe them shows that they are not you. But you have been trained to identify with what you observe, and in that identification the sense of self is created and sustained. This self is not a permanent entity; it is the continuity of memory seeking security in time. Memory is necessary for practical living—for language, for work, for navigating daily life—but psychologically, when memory becomes identity, it imprisons the mind. As long as you live as memory, there must be conflict, because memory is always old and life is always new. Freedom does not lie in destroying memory, nor in cultivating a new experience. Freedom comes when there is the simple perception that the observer is not separate from the observed, and therefore identification ceases. Then emotions arise and subside without leaving a residue, without becoming a centre called “me.” In such observation there is no effort, no becoming, no practice. There is only seeing. And in that seeing, the caricature of the self—the loop of memory calling itself “you”—comes naturally to an end. That ending is not an achievement; it is liberation itself, taking place now, not in some imagined future.
DNA, Memory, and the Five Elements
You are asking, “What is DNA?”
People think DNA is some ultimate authority over life. It is not.
DNA is memory — nothing more, nothing less.
Now, memory always exists within the five elements.
So let us see DNA not as chemistry, but as an arrangement of the Pancha Bhutas.
First, Earth.
Earth means structure.
DNA has a very stable architecture — the helix, the chromosomes, the way it is packed.
This solidity gives continuity. Because of this, you look like your parents.
But if earth becomes excessive, life becomes rigid — even genetically.
So DNA holds form, but it can also trap form.
Second, Water.
DNA cannot function without water.
All genetic activity happens in a fluid medium.
This is why the same DNA can express itself in completely different ways in different conditions.
Water gives adaptability.
Your genes are not fixed commands — they are responsive instructions.
This is why environment, food, emotion, and atmosphere matter far more than people think.
Third, Fire.
Fire is transformation.
Without fire, DNA is just a silent script.
Fire decides:
how fast genes act
when repair happens
when mutation and evolution occur
Too much fire, the system burns itself.
Too little fire, life becomes dull and degenerative.
Fire is what makes memory active.
Fourth, Air.
This is where modern medicine becomes uncomfortable.
Air is communication.
It is movement, signaling, regulation.
Your nervous system, your breath, your stress, your inner turbulence — all of this influences how DNA behaves.
So DNA is not only controlled by chemistry.
It listens to how you live.
This is why inner imbalance creates outer disorder.
Finally, Space.
This is the most important and the most ignored.
DNA exists inside space.
Space allows memory to exist without collapsing into chaos.
Space gives possibility.
Without space, there is no choice — only compulsion.
When there is more inner space, DNA becomes less tyrannical.
Now listen carefully.
DNA is memory of the body.
It is not intelligence.
It is not consciousness.
It is not who you are.
Awareness is not made by DNA —
DNA is used by awareness.
When you create distance between yourself and your memory,
when there is enough inner space,
memory loosens its grip.
Then even DNA behaves differently.
So do not try to fight your genes.
Do not worship them either.
Create balance in the elements,
create space within yourself,
and memory will fall into line.
That is the way of human science —
not fixing life,
but freeing it.
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