Then work remains to keep returning back to truth, until the samskAra-s are eradicated and there is a final establishment in the sahaja state.A later jump can be easier, with a character so purified that little or no work remains to achieve establishment. An early jump is harder to make, and it means that the sAdhaka‘s character is still impure so even having jumped into the truth, she or he keeps falling back unsteadily, overwhelmed by egotistical samskAra-s. In the cosmological approach, the jump is put off till later on, in order to give time for improving preparations to be made for it.There are pros and cons on both sides, so that different paths suit different personalities. In the direct path, the jump is soon or even now.
When what is considered gets expanded, beyond all limitations of our physical and mental seeing, then brahman is realized. It requires an expansion of consideration to a universal functioning - which is ruled by an all-powerful ‘God’ called ‘Ishvara’, or which expresses an all-comprehensive reality called ‘ brahman‘.Literally, ‘ brahman‘ means ‘expanded’ or ‘great’. Hence that approach is described as one ‘of bringing the individual under the universal’. This is what he called the ‘direct’ approach and he distinguished it from another approach that he called ‘cosmological’.In the ‘cosmological’ approach, an ‘individual person’ or ‘ jIva‘ is considered as an incomplete part of an encompassing universe. 2006 and this may be as a PDF file (267k), fully indexed and linked.Prakriya 1 – Universal and IndividualIn the preface to Atma darshan (page 2), Shri Atmananda points out that he takes an approach which brings ‘the universal under the individual’. Ananda has provided an updated version of these essays Nov.
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