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What is Smriti?
Pertaining to the shastras, literally, "sacred books," comprising four classes of scripture: the shruti, smriti, purana, and tantra. These comprehensive treatises cover every aspect of religious and social life, and the fields of law, medicine, architecture, art, etc. The shrutis are the "directly heard" or "revealed" scriptures, the Vedas. The smritis or "remembered" lore was finally written down in a remote past as the world's longest epic poems, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. Puranas are literally "ancient" allegories; tantras literally mean "rites" or "rituals"; these treatises convey profound truths under a veil of detailed symbolism. - Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda, footnote pg 87.
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I was introduced to this reference by YES on their album - Tales From Topographic Oceans. This amazing work is written in 4 pieces. The second is called: "The Remembering: High the Memory" and includes this note: "The Remembering. All our thoughts, impressions, knowledge, fears, have been developing for millions of years. What we can relate to is our own past, our own life, our own history. Here, it is especially Rick's keyboards which bring alive the ebb and flow and depth of our mind's eye; the topographic ocean. Hopefully we should appreciate that given points in time are not so significant as the nature of what is impressed on the mind, and how it is retained and used." I highly recommend this album for it is my lifelong favorite music. (Lyrics are here)
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You may have figured out "Why Smriti?" - a playful connection between the deep spiritual possibility of remembering the Truth of ourselves through meditation and the nicely comfortable memory foam utilized.
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