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What is the difference between individuality and personality, and what remains of the individual after the ego exits?

Your individuality is your essence, unique and rebellious, while personality is merely a borrowed mask; when the ego dissolves, only your authentic self remains, flowing in truth.

— Osho
According to Osho, individuality is your inborn essence (swabhava), unique and rebellious; personality is a socially borrowed mask (persona), the learned façade centered in ego. Society trades your individuality for conformity. When ego—the center of personality—drops, personality dissolves and only your authentic essence remains: the atma, God-centered being, your original face. Then actions flow spontaneously from truth, not social convenience.

Your real self is like your naked body; the “personality” is clothing others put on you—when you drop the clothes (ego), only your true self, the soul centered in God, remains.

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