If one keenly investigates what is the awareness that now shines as ‘I’, then in [one’s] heart a kind of sphurippu (an awareness [prajñā] of one’s own existence that is limitless and endowed with a fresh clarity, distinct from the limited body-awareness called ‘I’) alone will appear itself to itself [oneself to oneself] without sound as ‘I am I’.
As soon as the mind reaches the heart [its core and essence, which is pure awareness] [by] inwardly investigating who am I, when [thereby] he who is ‘I’ [ego] dies, one thing [or the one] appears spontaneously [or as oneself] as ‘I am I’ [that is, as awareness of oneself as oneself alone].
Though it appears, it is not ‘I’ [namely ego]. It is pūṉḏṟam [the whole or pūrṇa, which is infinite, eternal and unchanging], the poruḷ [the real substance or vastu] that is oneself. (Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 30)
When one investigates within [or inwardly investigates] what the place is from which one [or it] rises as ‘I’ [ego or mind], ‘I’ will die. This is jñāna-vicāra [awareness-investigation]. (Upadēśa Undiyār verse 19)
In the place where ‘I’ [namely ego, the false awareness ‘I am this’] merges, that, the one, appears spontaneously [or as oneself] as ‘I am I’. That itself [or that, oneself] is pūṉḏṟam [pūrṇa: the infinite whole or entirety of what is]. (Upadēśa Undiyār verse 20)
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