According to Osho, awakening and individuation name the same event seen through different languages: when the ego dissolves into emptiness (shunya, nirvana), the true person 'crystallizes'—a cosmic individuality without boundaries. Positive traditions (Gurdjieff, Jung, Shankara) call this individuation or the soul’s birth; Buddha describes it negatively as no-self and extinction of the flame. The drop seems lost yet becomes ocean; both descriptions indicate one awakening.
Awakening is when the small “me” disappears, and that emptiness lets your real, boundless self appear—some call it becoming a true person, others call it no-self.