Dear Nagaraj,
'thannizhappu' is a beautiful word. Unless one finds out the source from which the ego rises, and kills the ego, one cannot
reach the 'thannizhappu' the loss of 'I' and attaining 'I am'. The egoless state is moksha. Moksha is not somewhere in the
high sky. It is attained here and now, once the ego is totally extinguished.
The last verse of Ulladu Narpadu says:
If asked, 'Which of these three is final liberation - With form, without form or with-and-without form?' I say 'Liberation is
the extinction of the ego which inquires - 'With form, without form, or with-and-without form?'
(tr. Prof. K. Swaminathan).
Once Major Chadwick when he was an inmate in the Asramam built a small samadhi near his cottage and then told
Sri Bhagavan: I have built samadhi for my ego! Sri Bhagavan laughed and said: Is it that so easy, Chadwick?
Both laughed.
Arunachala Siva.