Realizing yourself: Philosophical approach

Imagine you are with an apple in your hand and you yourself come in front of you and analyze. Sounds fictitious!

The idea behind meditation is to find yourself, not physically, vitally nor mentally.

There are many ways of meditation and paths followed by many sages and divinities all over the world, however actually there is no way to do or definite way to do so.

As you start meditation with great enthusiasm picking one of the ways(ex. concentrating on breathing), you find that this is not the way and eventually you end up with something new that leads you to self realization.

But initiative is important here. 

By my opinion, it requires little theoretical basis, it can be anything among multiple followed by theist across the world and institutes of spirituality.

I do meditation, try many things, concentrating breathing process, concentrating thoughts and mind activity, and my favorite one to impose yourself on some deity in front of you and you detach yourself from your body, mind intellect etc.

Meditation is not the process to be carried out in the secluded space with great silence, rather it can be carried out anywhere wherever and whenever you wish to.

This happens with me, as I mentioned there is no specific path by which you can lead to realization, you have to meditate on yourself relentlessly.

I was travelling to my hometown and sitting in then vehicle I started concentrating and eventually got into this imagination that I am holding an apple in one hand come in front of my body, mind and whatever we think that we are and started analyzing.

And for a moment I experienced a glimpse of something extraordinary.

This experience can then be used as a way to meditate.

Then what is the significance of apple here. The apple indicates the external world, if I say your body, energy, intellect, mind etc etc everything is external to you, it seems difficult in first attempt.

So take an apple as an external thing and try to imagine everything including your body and mind as the external things exactly similar like that apple.

Apple will help you to discriminate yourself from everything which is external to you.

The idea behind sharing this article is, start something with the intention of self realization, find someone who can teach you this, find someone with the same intention, read something that can give you little theoretical base and try try and try, definitely you will achieve something.