The water felt cold against his skin as he floated, suspended in the vast expanse of the water.

For a moment, he felt weightless, as though he was drifting away from his own body. a surge of energy passed through him. he looked out into the horizon and felt a deep sense of oneness with the world.

He knew the ego death. It was the shedding of the self, the liberation from the confines of the ego, and the opening of oneself to the infinite beauty of the universe.