I see, then within that thought frame consider this the stilling of that mischievous voice.
The ego is described as
the part of the mind that mediates between the conscious and the unconscious and is responsible for reality testing and a sense of personal identity.
Consciousness being the waking living interacting you
and unconscious being the unsaid perhaps.
The ego develops as part of your personality, consider it a self created translation software.
During moments of ego stilling, you can more easily see an expanded picture of things, without the self sustaining box around you.
It is the ‘I am… this’ voice.
This helps for the journey of discovering less
The ‘I am’
Purely something far more abstract that has no use for people on a purely mundane journey.