Or _[=a]tm[=a]_ comes first; and this is conscious _sat_ and the cause of the worlds; which _[=a]tm[=a]_ eventually becomes the Lord.

The _[=a]tm[=a]_ in man, owing to his environment, cannot see whole, and needs the Yoga discipline of asceticism to enable him to do so.

But he is the same ego which is the All.
The relation between the absolute and the ego is through will.

"This (neuter) _brahma_ willed, 'May I be many,' and created" _( Ch[=a]nd_., above).

Sometimes the impersonal, and sometimes the personal "spirit willed" _( T[=a]iit._ 2.