Atmamun: The Path To Achieving The Bliss Of The Himalayan Swamis. And The Freedom Of A Living God.

by Kapil Gupta

There is pain and risk in asking real questions. Intellectualization is risk-free.

When I say Experiencing everything around you what I mean is that you are not thinking about anything that comes into contact with your five senses.

Imagine that whatever situation you encounter, your lips produce the wisest words. You are untouched by anger, or any emotion. You act perfectly. And in perfect proportion to whatever the situation

Atmamun is a process of transcending the mind altogether. What the mind really is. What gives rise to it. What excites it. What its patterns are. And how it controls our lives.

The man who knows that he lives in a prison will find a way to break free of it.

The path to Atmamun begins with the recognition that all of these things do not belong to him. They belong squarely to his mind. And man is Not his mind!

He has a thought that is generated by his mind. The thought may be true or untrue, logical or illogical, pleasant or unpleasant. This thought produces an emotion within him. It makes him feel a certain way. He then expresses this feeling in the form of a particular reaction or a behavior. That behavior produces a certain tangible consequence. This consequence then produces another thought. And this thought another emotion. Which leads to another feeling. And another behavior. With another consequence. Leading to another thought.

The self-help movement has created what it considers to be an antidote for this: Positive Thinking.

Positive thoughts still emanate from the same mind. And while they may make one feel more ‘positive,” it is imprisonment all the same. And you will forever remain lost in the struggle of turning negative thoughts into positive ones.

Whether the disruption is in an up direction or a down direction matters not. It is a disruption all the same. But in order to circumvent this issue, man has categorized the disruptions as positive versus negative in order to make himself feel better about it.

Nature lives in a state of equilibrium. It does not consider a storm as bad and sunshine as good. It does not categorize. Or judge.

The mind is a deeply intricate web. So intricate, in fact, that as you learn more about it you will begin to seriously wonder whether you can distinguish what is mind from what is You.

We become enslaved by our minds because we believe that we are the mind.

For the vast majority of us, the mind is indeed our enemy. For it has controlled our lives.

The mind can go anywhere it wishes. You need not go With It. The mind can entertain any thoughts that it wishes. They have nothing to do with you. For you are not the mind.

If you are asking for no less than God himself, you must give no less than your Entire Self.

For your entire life, you have lived as a slave to this person in the mirror. And it has destroyed your life.

You raise your children in the image of your own ego. And you often cry in bed at night for the way that you sometimes treat them.

You try to preserve yourself in front of others. But you run from yourself in private.

Treatments and solutions are simply a balm that temporarily soothes the pain. They cure nothing. The only thing that cures is Understanding. The only thing that cures is Clarity.

The problem with manufacturing anything is that it requires continuous maintenance. It requires constant support.

My backyard consists of patches of lawn bordered by a fence. And behind the fence is a natural wooded area. The patches of lawn must be constantly and intensely maintained.

The vast majority of your ideas, opinions, likes, dislikes, and philosophies were not ones that you were born with.

The person that you call “myself” is the source of all your miseries. Remove this manufactured self, and you will be as free as a living God.

To live a Hope-less life is simply the most glorious life of all. To live as nothing. To hope for nothing. To strive for nothing.

When this sort of human being encounters something auspicious, he will likely feel a surge of excitement. But he will immediately recognize that it is from the mind. And thus his excitement will abate.

When he encounters something troubling, he will feel his heart drop. But he will immediately recognize that this too is from the mind. And his disappointment will simply vanish.

You can create anything you wish In your life. But you will never make anything Out Of life. For life will always be life. Meaningless. Innocent. And Indefinable.

Climb the greatest mountain. Achieve all the accolades in the world. Become the greatest in your field. Achieve fame. Earn millions. And you will enjoy every bit of the journey, if and only if you understand that none of it means anything.

Achieve all the greatness in the world. And be willing to drop it without hesitation. This is a life of joy. This is a life of freedom.

That life will give us what we ask if we are willing to work for it. My friend, life will not give you anything. Not because it is evil or cruel. But because it has not the capacity to give. It is simply there.

Life is simply a joke. An absurdity. A non-linear, haphazard, and unpredictable trail that is fertile for the imagination of hallucinatory human beings.

My friend, there was a day that you were not here. And there will soon be a day when you are no longer here. And once you realize this, you will understand that all there is left to do is play.

Play with your work. Play with your kids. Play with your wife. Play with your surroundings. Play with your happiness. Play with your sorrows.

For when you see that life is inherently and fundamentally full of strife, pain, disappointment, anxiety, and misery, you will stop looking for bliss within the events of your life.

Prescriptions such as positivity, mindfulness, optimism, and happiness are traps.

If you convert negative thoughts into positive ones, you will be converting for the rest of your life.

A “job” is an insult to a human being. For a human being is a prince of men. He is a king of existence.

I do not condemn a man for having a job. I chastise him for believing that this is all he is worth. I call him out for his unwillingness to examine his interiority and discover that he is a Prince of the earthly kingdom.

Nature created you as an original. Originals are invested with glorious talents.

Rather than sweating from a maniacal adherence to “hard work,” is it not better to sweat from an innocent immersion in one’s craft?

Success arises from innocence or from a sort of knowing. It arises from innocence when an individual is so devoted to his craft that he gives himself to it, day and night.

Hard work never made anyone a success. It may have played a catalytic role.

Knowing comes first. Devotion and love come first. Hard work MAY come later. And for some people it never really comes at all.

The man who knows that he will be a success makes “hard work” work for him. To him it is a tool in his arsenal. The man who does not know Works For hard work. He Relies upon hard work as the engine and the vehicle to get him there. And this latter instance rarely works.

The one who knows just knows. The one who doesn’t know looks at “the odds.”

Legends are created from the inside rather than the outside. They are those who simply see things in a different way. They are often rebellious. They are not inhibited by the status quo. In fact, they seek to shatter it.

And there is perhaps no greater contributor to mediocrity than the concept of “school.” For education is one thing. School is another.

Rather than finding the thing that you can imagine yourself becoming, find the thing that you simply cannot imagine yourself Not Becoming.

You’ve always been told to fight for your freedom Of mind. But the truth is this: the greatest freedom in the world is freedom From mind.