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>>18464483
>When my ego dies, what happens, practically speaking?
See pic related, from Shankara's Mundaka-bhasya
> Is it a sort of realization that my life, identity and memories are just something extraneous to being purely conscious, while I do retain the knowledge and memories of these things I don't identify with them anymore?
What you describe is what it's like while you still live on earth after enlightenment/ego-death as the sentient presence inside the body, illuminating it from within, during this state even after the ego dies you are still aware of the intellect, memories, the phenomenal world etc. Once the physicals body dies then the external contents of awareness viz. the intellect/mind/world/memories stops being presented to the awareness of the enlightened man and their awareness becomes omnipresent eternal undying bliss that doesn't have any content presented to itself anymore, but it simply happily abides and reveals in its own effulgent plenitude forever.