[Iamit]

At the beginning you may feel a sense of disconnection. You are not sure what you feel disconnected from. You have vague ideas about something all encompasing which is sometimes referred to as God, Source, Primal Energy, Oneness, The Sublime/Supreme. What these labels sort of have in common is the idea of a Totality without distinction or discrimination.

You may have a sense that the solution to this feeling of disconnected is that things are already perfect. One, and totally connected, just as they already are, so you may actually require nothing!

But this sense may not be strong at this stage and anyway your search has uncovered a majority of well established, well respected, authoritative, paths and practices with great history behind them, that say that you lack something variously called Enlightenment, Realization, Liberation, or Awakening. Somewhere in amongst all these paths and practises there may be a suggestion that indeed things are perfectly connected just as they already are, but you hardly notice it or may not notice it at all, so myriad and sure of themselves these paths and practises are.

So off you go trying this or that path and practise and may feel you are getting somewhere. But for some this is not the case. They may lack the discipline required by some or come to feel that they are not making the progress they hoped for. It is at this point that the idea of The Totality without distinction or discrimination (Oneness) may resonate strongly enough to end the belief that there is distance between seeker and sought, and the path that has been followed till now with its requirement for practise drops away, disappears, is trancended.

Something like this may be what Nisargadatta and others sense when they use the direct approach.