If You Can Pick An Apple, You Can Realize God

There have been so many God-realized saints and sages that have come and gone. Some still roam the earth, and others have yet to come. Still we find atheists that argue if God exists, why hasn’t anyone seen him? What a redundant question considering the thousands who have outwardly expressed their full-fledged relationships with God, and described him in vast detail. These atheists will then immediately attack back saying these people have gone mad or are hallucinating. What the atheists fail to realize is that realizing God is as easy as picking an apple—they can do it just as easily as anyone else can.

We are falsely led to believe that the path of spirituality is a hard one, and that climbing Mount Everest is much more feasible than attaining spiritual perfection. These rumors are normally spread by the spiritual inquisitives who have not attained perfection themselves due to lack of devotion or what have you, and now reflect their apparent failure outwards. The fact will always remain that the spiritual path is an easy one, only if you want it to be.

If I tell you that there is an apple tree down the block bearing hundreds upon hundreds of apples daily, and all you need to do is pick one apple to attain perfection—you would be all over that idea, wouldn’t you? I mean, who wouldn’t? That almost seems too easy! But the truth is, it really is that simple. Now you will begin your journey down the block to the Great Apple Tree, but what happens then? You see your neighbor outside with his kids and you stop to have a conversation. Once you are done, you pass by a small lake and decide to take a quick dip, and then dry off in the sun while you smell the fragrant flowers. After that, you find an envelope of money laying across the side of the road and happily pick it up and head to the store to buy your favorite things. These all represent the distractions that we come across on the spiritual path—if you really wanted the apple, you would have ignored everything else along the way and nose-dived your way to that tree.Even once you get past all of your distractions and you finally reach the tree and behold the beautiful apple, you will now over analyze the apple and the proper way to pick it. Maybe you’ve never seen an apple tree before or never picked an apple so you are under the impression that you need some tools to pick it. So now you head to the store again to purchase the tools—and to complicate things further, you went to the grocery store instead of the hardware store. After running around town and finally finding the tools you were looking for, you head past your distractions once again (being distracted by them a second time) and head to the tree only to realize that you may need a Phillips head screw driver instead of the original flat head that you purchased!

Such is life, and such is the spiritual path. There are so many distractions and over analyzations that we completely miss the simplicity of the task. It isn’t until many, many

lives pass us by and we ripen into old age that we realize we can easily walk up to the tree and twist the apple right off of the branch and it will gladly break free into our possession.

That is why the spiritual path is easy, and that is also why it seems difficult. To the persevering, steadfast mind—they will walk straight to the tree and yank the apple off with finesse and zero stops along the way; but to the complaining, unsure mind—they will get lost a thousand times before they eventually find their way.

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