When the moonlight, the jiva or mind-knowledge, merges into the real sunlight, the supreme Selfknowledge, dies and becomes one with It, that is the auspicious time of amavasya [the night of the no moon].
Guru Vachaka Kovai The Garland of Guru’s Sayings, by Sri Muruganar Part Two - The Practice of The Truth Ch. 82. Annihilation of the Ego, V. 857











