According to Osho, the Adam–Eve story’s “tree of knowledge” symbolizes awakening awareness—the inner power to discriminate good from bad. Calling it the tree of judgment or knowledge is the same. Forbidding it glorifies ignorance as “innocence.” True innocence is awareness ripened, not childish ignorance. Seeking discernment is divine, not sinful; only conditioning prefers ignorance.
The story says growing wise enough to see right from wrong is good; confusing ignorance with innocence is the real error.