According to Osho, knowing is direct, existential seeing—your own lived experience—while believing is a borrowed conclusion from others. Belief is needed only in ignorance; it patches the gap of not knowing. When awareness flowers into experience, the need to believe vanishes—then the question of believing doesn’t arise at all. Knowing liberates; belief binds and divides.
If you taste sugar yourself, you don’t need to believe anyone telling you it’s sweet.