According to Osho, in a survival crunch even with scarce resources, the outer act can be identical—one may even sacrifice oneself—but consciousness makes the difference. The awakened yields from freedom and trust in life’s deathlessness; the unawakened may yield from despair or conditioning. Therefore judge not by behavior but by the inner reason, for awareness transforms meaning.
Two people might do the same thing to survive, but what matters is whether it comes from fear or from a calm knowing that life can’t really die.