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THE NOTION OF GROWTH
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tails that we might not perceive distinctly (yet). Yet the mere outlining of an experience makes it so tangible that we become able to analyze it.
EXAMPLE: We perceive a new object. Something inside the object is ringing. If we speak to the object in a certain way, it answers.
There is something.'
2 - Recognizing the interconnected whole behind
the experience (sangraha) Here we move our attention to the fundamental whole that lies beyond the individual details we perceived in step one.
We consciously withdraw our energy from perceiving details and direct it to the attempt to find what is behind it. It is the attempt to discover a coherent whole in all the many parts. This attempt, this energy we consciously focus is the crucial factor that ultimately enables us to identify the underlying whole.
EXAMPLE: We ask friends what the object might be. We understand eventually that this is a method to talk to people who are not in hearing distance.
'What is it exactly?'
It is essential to understand that we do not have to experience all details first before we receive an impression of the whole.
3 - Identifying its functional elements (vyavahara).
After we determined how the fundamental whole looks like, we now try to recognize its structure and its parts, - we identify its functional elements.
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