Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Babble 037a
“All knowledge that world has received comes from the mind;” and these knowledge were transferred to other minds and to scriptures. Although there are possibilities of losses in these transfer phases. When writing was not practiced, minds (and pictures) were only storage devices of world knowledge. But one mind was not good enough to store all knowledge. And Mind as storages devices is less reliable (than scriptures) due to loss of memory and memory distortions. So bunch of young students and group of scholars engaged or were engaged to store knowledge received so far. Development of language improved efficiency. Different bunch of students and scholars were given to memories different parts of knowledge. Perhaps this was the system developed societies followed in those grand old days due to absence of knowledge commissions and distinguished knowledge managers. Had Vedas followed this path and how many years passed, before those became scriptures? “The infinite library of universe is in your own mind.” Quotation is from Vivekananda.
