EGO :

1.

When the insentient ego, the jiva which is chit-jada [a combination of consciousness and the insentient], dies, he will shine as the nature of consciousness [chit-swarupa].

Since the nature of consciousness remains there [in that state] as existence [sat] alone, the bliss [experienced there] is ever Self alone.

2.

Comment by Sadhu Om :-

 The ego or jiva is a wrong knowledge which acts as a false knot linking together Self, which is consciousness [Chit], and the body, which is insentient [jada].

When this ego dies, i.e. when its wrong identification with the insentient body is destroyed through Self-enquiry, its nature of insentience [jada-swarupa] alone is removed and thus it remains shining as the very nature of consciousness [chit-swarupa].

Since there can be no existence other than this consciousness, this consciousness [chit] itself remains as the single mere existence [sat], which is Self.

Since that state is a state of non-duality, the bliss experience there is also nothing but Self itself.

Thus the knowledge [chit] of Self, one’s own existence [sat], is itself bliss [ananda].

3.

Comment by Sri Muruganar :-

The death of the insentient ego is the severing of the chit-jada-granthi [the knot between consciousness and the insentient body].

Severing the chit-jada-granthi means separating through Self-enquiry the body and Self, which were joined together through ignorance [avidya].

 “The Lord of the Mount danced and [thereby] separated the body and Self,” sings Sri Sundaramurti Nayanar.

Here [in the present verse], the fruit of the severance of the knot [granthi-bheda] is described as “the bliss [which is] Self alone” [tan-mattira-inbam], and the nature of consciousness, which results from that [the severance of the knot], is described as “exis- tence alone” [sat-mantiram].

But the mind does not exist apart from the Self, i.e., it has no independent existence. The Self exists without the mind, never the mind without the Self.

Sri Ramanashram

A PART OF SRI RAMANASHRAMAM Thiruvanna malai