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

by Kapil Gupta

Francis Of Assisi and Meera.

Who wouldn’t prefer a life of “insanity” filled with bliss, as opposed to a life of “sanity” filled with turmoil?

KG: Imagine that you were boating in a lake. And that you did not know how to swim. Then imagine that the boat capsized and you found yourself submerged in the water. Would you ask me what you needed to do? Q: No. KG: What would you do? Q: I would try to keep my head above water. KG: Indeed you would. In any and all ways possible. You would flail and kick and pant and do whatever you had to do to keep your head above water. You would not ask for instructions. You would not look for a “how-to” manual or a “self-help” book. You would take matters into your own hands. And you would survive! And the reason that you would survive is because the WHAT would be clearly before you. That WHAT is your life. And because you chose Life, because the What was crystal clear, you would create the HOW for yourself. Q: You’re right.

If the WHAT is super Clear, you will absolutely has the HOW.

We must, therefore, establish your What. How clear is this What? How intense is your desire for this What? Does it mean any less to you than surviving from drowning? Is this What a matter of life and death for you?

They have no desire to know him or become him.

The kingdom of God is for the rarest man in the world. Millions speak of it. Only One pursues it.

KG: If you are drowning in a lake, do you weigh possibility and impossibility? Or do you simply act, possibility be damned? Q: You’re right. I simply act. KG: The human being who is consumed with a particular vision does not allow “possibility” to stand in his or her way.

KG: If you want the kingdom of God more than anything else in your life, you will have it. And the reason that you will have it is because you will not stop until you attain it.

No compromises. But there will be a cost. And the only question that remains is whether you are willing to pay

you wish to taste the nectar of life and live in complete bliss, there is no room for You AND God. There is only room for one.

The way that you have constructed your life allows for God as a consultant and an advisor. As a result, he is always at arm’s length. Advice never transformed anyone. The only way that you can attain the kingdom of God is to give yourself whole to the pursuit.

To give yourself whole means to have nothing left for yourself, does it not?

The only way to attain God is to drink him.

This is because your thirst for God is not yet mature.

To drink him means to want the kingdom of God more than you want yourself. To drink the kingdom of God means that you are willing to relinquish everything in order to attain it.

Fear not. You need not sell your home and retreat into a cave. You need not give away your personal possessions. But in order to make room for him, you must cleanse yourself of the NEED for anything else. All your ideas about life, your attachments to your ideologies, your thoughts about the way things “should be,” your preferences, your prejudices. All of it must be on the cutting table.

The price is your particular understanding of life. The price is all that you consider to be “yours.” The price is yourself. And it is non-negotiable!

KG: Until now, whenever you felt joy in your life, you were the Experiencer of the joy. Q: Yes, I was the experiencer. KG: When you are the experiencer of the joy, the joy usually comes from some fortuitous life event. Correct? Q: Yes, something positive happens. KG: Precisely. And that positive event is short-lived. Because it is soon followed by a negative event, is it not? Q: Yes, in my life, negative events seem to outweigh the positive ones. KG: This is always the case. And even if it weren’t the case, it would not make a big difference. For it does not matter how positive the event was, it is short-lived. And thus, the Experience of happiness is also short-lived. And this is how man goes about his life. Hoping for one positive event after another so as to “string together” moments of joy. Q: I’m with you. KG: And this will be your fate for as long as you are the Experiencer. For you will sit in wait for the next “positive experience.” But if you surrender your life to the kingdom of God, you are no longer sitting in wait.

KG: The one who waits for bliss is the one who is not blissful.

KG: The reason that people are not blissful is because they depend upon Events to make them happy.

KG: The reason that people want joy is because they feel, in a way, miserable. Do you agree?

KG: And you seek the kingdom of God in order to feel endless joy. Q: Yes. KG: And the reason that you crave endless joy is because you feel endless misery. Q: Yes.

KG: My dear friend, if you surrender yourself to the kingdom of God, who will be left to feel the misery?

Anything of great value has a great price. If you are asking for no less than God himself, you must give no less than your Entire Self.

The survival and the well-being of this person in the mirror represents the full sum of your life.

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

Your life is in turmoil. And you attempt with all your might to Organize the turmoil into a semblance of acceptability. You beautify the face that you show to others. So that the responses that you receive from them may uplift you. 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. Misery. Hope. Disappointment. Longing. Emotions. These are your bedfellows. And they are at the center of your life experience.

The life that you are currently living is not your real life. Because you are living through the Sheath known as Mind.

The Ego is Not that which says that you are great. It is that which says that you Exist at all!

The greatest illusion in the history of man. The sleight of hand that has the entire world enchanted and confused. The idea that you exist. This is the one single source of all your problems. This is the genesis of all your turmoils. This is the seed of all your troubles.

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

Everything that you do is done in the interest of its welfare. It has made you a slave.

So what you are saying is the very persona that I’m using to Overcome my problems is actually the Cause of my problems.

And man lives his entire life trying to untangle a mess, when all he needs to do is to step out of it. When YOU are born, misery is born. When YOU are born, burden is born.

The greatest freedom that we have is the freedom to walk away from ourselves.

In becoming nothing, you have gained everything.

The single greatest obstacle to Atmamun is the presence of your manufactured self. 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.

The man who cannot stand being a Nobody will strive to become a Somebody. But as he chases this status, he finds that this Somebody he hopes to create never seems to sustain itself.

To be the best in the world at one’s craft is largely a journey into the recesses of one’s self, rather than a journey toward a stage. To arrive at one’s goal broken and battered and soul-less, no matter how grand the achievement, is to have arrived nowhere.

What good does it do a man to gain the world and lose his soul?

Important

Imagine for a moment what it would feel like to Want For Nothing! To live your days invested completely in that which you love to do. Your art, your passion . . . But Without A Single Iota Of Hope. To live your life as someone who had no need to attain anything else for the remainder of his life. Whatever comes, let it come. And whatever does not, isn’t even noticed. For it was never Hoped For in the first place. Understand this: Hope Destroys!

Important

If who you are today is not enough, it is because you don’t know who you truly are. And trying to make yourself into Someone will take you even further away from who you fundamentally are.

Important

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. The man who lives in this way gains accolades without wanting them. And he becomes a Prince of Mankind.

If you are happy, don’t get too excited, for misery is just around the corner. And if you are unhappy, fear not, for happiness is on its way.

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.

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What this human being will begin to understand is that Life has nothing to offer him. That nature has structured life in such a way that bliss is only available in the most mundane of places: This Very Moment. And nowhere else!

We live in a world of shadows and mirages. Nothing is real. Nothing is tangible. Nothing belongs to You. Nothing is under your control.

Life is something that is to be Lived rather than manufactured.

But the Living can only happen if we live as a lonely traveler passing through. Rather than one who builds his ...