According to Osho, knowing is first-hand, meditative realization—entering your own interior silence and participating in existence—while knowledge is second-hand, borrowed information from scriptures, words, and concepts. Knowing arises when the mind drops and innocence opens; it is universal and cannot contradict another's knowing. Knowledge is an empty shell without lived experience. Study accumulates knowledge; meditation births knowing.
Knowing is like tasting a mango yourself; knowledge is just reading about mangoes.