According to Osho, asmita is the mind’s subtlest and final state—a refined self-sense at the junction where mind meets the Divine, still within mind and duality, like a transparent glass wall before truth. Ego is the gross first state. Liberation requires a further leap: even asmita must melt; only beyond mind—no self, no dualities—does the ultimate become accessible.
Asmita is a very thin feeling of I-am still inside the mind; to be truly free, even that must be let go.