You are trying to memorize the sutras verbatim? I will consider that yes from here on, so the tips I am going to give are related to this method.
If your primary language is Hindi, I am aware that there are a lot of similarities between it and Sanskrit, which I imagine is the language of the sutras. Exploit every similarity that you can. And how to do it?
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The basic principle of memory palaces images is: if you can transform a piece of information, whatever it is, in an image, it can be memorized with memory palaces. Ideally, you can imagine something that represents each word. For example, you can imagine “The” being a cup of tee. Or shall being a shell. Or you can separate the words with its syllables and try to make some association. For example; review. Re- has a sense of repeating, view, of course, of viewing something. You can imagine two sweaty eye-balls making repeated squats or something. But some words are very hard to do this perfect correspondences. If you tried and you can’t do it, there is another method that I am using:
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You can make a image for every syllable, for example, AB - AC - AD - BA, PR, and so forth. You will need a lot of images for that, but it is viable. I do this images for each syllable as and when the need arises.
For example, I want to memorize the word “verdade”, which means truth in Portuguese (my native language). I then created an image for Ve(Venom) and other for Da(dart); you can skip some letters and don’t need to do the whole word, as long as you are sure that there will not be any confusion. The way I am using this, though, is a little bit more complicated:
I am making 3 images for each syllable: a person, a object, and some vehicle/mount, in many cases an animal or a car. For verdade, like I said, I see Venom with a dart in his hand, wanting to throw it at somebody. In this way I can make a person carrying a object while driving/mounting something. I found this better since it can condense more information than if I had three different persons to each syllable, and I would have to create some form of interaction between them; using this 3 different things, the person just needs to be holding the object and mounting the thing, it’s all the interaction needed. And, of course, after you made an image for a specif word, it will be unique, and every time you find it again, you already have a image for it.
This can be used for all the syllables that you desire, but I strongly recommend that you try first to make images directly by the sound or the meaning of the word, like the examples I gave with shall-shell, the-tee and review, since they have a conceptual correspondence with the word, which perhaps is a stronger connection for the mind. If you can’t, then you use the Person - Object - Mount/Drive method. Or use it first, I don’t know, it’s up to you.
If you have any doubts, please, let me know, and I will try to help you further.
