To “discern” is to “separate”: to separate the Real and the illusory, the Absolute and the contingent, the Necessary and the possible, Atma and Maya. To discernment is joined, complementally and operatively, “concentration,” which “unites”: it is – starting from earthly and human Maya – the plenary awareness of Atma at once absolute, infinite and perfect; without equal, without limit and without blemish. [GTUFS: SurveyME, Introduction: Epistemological Premises]

Discernment / Contemplation: Discernment by its adamantine rigor, refers as it were to the mystery of the Absolute; analogously, contemplation, by its aspect of musical gentleness, pertains to the mystery of the Infinite. In the human microcosm, the volitive faculty stems as it were from the absoluteness of the Sovereign Good, whereas the affective faculty testifies to its infinitude. [GTUFS: HaveCenter, Intelligence and Character]