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

by Kapil Gupta

Atmamun is a path which leads to the bliss experienced by the Kings of human civilization: The Himalayan Swamis.

Man cannot be free until he realizes how deeply he is bound. He cannot use his mind until he first breaks free from its control.

What is Atmamun?

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The Sanskrit translation of Atmamun is “Mind of the Spirit.”

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. No matter what sights or sounds you encounter, they do not register as thought, but as experience. You experience them intimately. Without the intermediary known as thought. As a matter of fact, you have no thoughts whatsoever. You experience everything. You experience it just as it is. Without thinking about it in any way.

Some have described it as The Zone or a Flow State. The world refers to this state as resulting from a calm mind. But actually this is not the case.

This is the state of No-Mind. The Japanese call it Mushin.

No-Mind is the gateway to Atmamun.

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.

And control is the correct word. All of us are controlled by the mind.

Please understand this: Man’s greatest dilemma is that he lives in a prison and he believes that he is free.

The human being is thus imprisoned by his likes and dislikes. You might ask, What would I do if I had no likes or dislikes?

You would take life as it comes. You would experience it. And because you would not be taking sides, you would enjoy it immensely.

Please understand this: When you have likes and dislikes, you have a desire for one thing a...

He is imprisoned by desires, cravings, preferences, prejudices, hopes, wishes, vices, ideals, philosophies, and on and on.

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!

Atmamun is not to improve the mind, but t...

Atmamun is not a state of a calm or serene mind. It begins with...

One that I am constantly asked: If I transcend the mind, wi...

For almost every human being in the world, his current existence consists of the following: 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.

it is not a question of right and wrong. It is a question of misery versus peace. Joy versus anguish. And freedom versus imprisonment.

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.

Bliss is neither positive or negative. Neither is it neutral. It is a state of Equanimity.

You see, any disturbance to a state of equilibrium is a disruption to that equilibrium. Whether the disruption is in an up direction or a down direction matters not. It is a disruption all the same.

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. Or take sides.

What Is The Mind?

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But the life that you are experiencing is not being experienced directly by you. It is being experienced by you through the filter of the mind. In fact, this filter is also a projector. The mind creates the entirety of the scene that you experience. Every. Single. Day.

It is neither good nor bad. These are simply judgments that do not get to the heart of the issue.

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

Because as long as you believe that you are the mind, you will become subject to all of the turmoil that the mind is. And the mind is lost in turmoil. The incessant thoughts. The crazy emotions.

For as long as you believe you are the mind, then your life will be filled with these turmoils.

But you cannot “deal with” cancer. You must find a way to become completely free of it.

Imagine that you are fighting a war. And that you have found a way to spy on your enemy so that you can see his every move. Wouldn’t this allow you to escape him?

Understanding is everything. Understanding is the path to liberation.

The only way to make it a friend, or even a servant, begins with understanding its ways.

This is the wayward nature of the mind. It flies around the world in a second.

The problem arises when we go with it. And as long as we believe that we are the mind, we will go where it goes.

And we will do everything we can in order to avoid being still. Because movement is the mind’s nature, it becomes our nature as well.

KG: Precisely. The dog running around doesn’t bother you because you know that you are not the dog. The mind running around does bother you because you are tied to it by a leash. Q: What’s the leash that ties me to the mind? KG: The belief that you are your mind!

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.

Why Worship A God?

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Does God exist? The answer to this question has no significance to anyone’s life. It is a mere curiosity. More senseless concepts upon which to waste our precious existence. If he exists, your day-to-day existence is still your day-to-day existence. If he doesn’t exist, your day-to-day existence is still your day-to-day existence.

Understand this: Man will take any opportunity to avoid that which is most immediate in his life. He will do anything but the task at hand. He will look at anything besides that which stands inches from his face.

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He is an escapist. He is a fantasy-seeker. Illusions are his drug. And reality is of no use to him.

Wherever we wish to go, we can only proceed from where we are. If these stories are a part of your personal experience, then begin from there. If they are not, then begin from there. If you seek riches, chase them. If you seek fame, cultivate it. If you seek to be a holy man, become one. If you seek success for your children, help them attain it. If you seek to help the needy, do it.

Correct. And for as long as it floats along the surface of the river, it moves as the river moves. It sees the various places around the world that the river sees. It breathes as the river breathes. It rolls over ancient stones and leaps across steep cliffs and winds through lush green valleys and ambles through quaint meadows.

Let life happen and accept life to enjoy it

The leaf that gives itself whole to the river, Becomes the river.

Give yourself to life, accept life and receive its power.

For all of your life, you have held God far from you. You have used him as a wishing well. It matters not who your God is, or where you believe he resides. If you give yourself to him, you will experience your life as he experiences his. You will assume his power. And feel his bliss.