Sat-darshana Bhashya (translation)

Verse 33.

अहङकृति यो लसति ग्रसित्वा
कि तस्य कार्य परिशिष्टमस्ति।
किचिद्विजानाति स नात्मनोऽन्यत्
तस्य स्थिति भावयितुं क्षमः कः॥

What remains there for him to do who swallows the ego and shineth forth? Separate from the Self, there is nought to him. His condition to conceive, who is there so bold?

A jeevan-mukta is he, who, liberated from the ego-grip, not merely ceases to be in the egoistic consciousness, but is firmly rooted in the deeper truth of himself, poised in the consciousness of the Real, the Self. Therefore ’What is there for him to do?’ from the egoistic standpoint? For, the purpose of the ego is fulfilled in the development of the deeper consciousness of the Self which is free to dissolve it ụtterly or to retain it as a transformed instrument for purposes of its own, for using it in a manner quite in consonance with the laws of the deeper Spirit known to the Real, the Self, ever free and eternal, the Divine. Hence we have it that the mukta the liberated ’swallows the ego and shines forth.’ It is not an utter loss of the ego-self. It is taken alive, so to speak, for use by the deeper Truth, the real and the divine Self. As the mukta realises his identity with his deeper truth, he is said to swallow the ego and shine forth. He realises that what is the self in him is the Brahman, the Divine. Though he sees the different appearances in the One Infinite he sees them as not different from the Self of which he is deeply aware by an inner intimacy. The ego is there, feels the presence, power and pressure of its own deeper self and is moved to act as guided by the Light behind. Hence it is said “There is nought to him separate from the self’. Such a condition is indeed inconceivable to the mind with its gaze turned to the external.

The manifestation of higher powers and the change that comes upon the embodiment of the jivan-mukta have been mentioned in the Ramana Gita. (Vide Introduction.)

Weakness of understanding gives rise to long discussions.