Core Insight:
According to Osho, flowering is the first inner blossoming—fragile and reversible; awakening nears the center—stronger yet still fallible; self-realization reaches the center—fulfilled but the subtle self/ego can remain; enlightenment is the quantum leap where the seeker dissolves, like a dewdrop becoming ocean—irreversible and complete. Hence, these are successive stages culminating in egoless being.