Core Insight:
According to Osho, Shankaracharya’s verse—calling virtuous conduct the highest—is fundamentally mistaken. The highest is samadhi: awakened awareness. Morality is merely its shadow, a natural byproduct that cannot be manufactured. Exalting virtue breeds hypocrisy in the clever and guilt in the simple. Seek inner illumination first; when consciousness flowers, character follows effortlessly, alive and flexible, rather than rigid, painted, and dead.