Osho gives new life to the ancient wisdom that was lost when modern India broke its links with the past. The religious rituals still practiced in India are vital keys to past knowledge: ‘living temples’ were constructed with sophisticated acoustics and an awareness that ‘sound is absolute being,’ and the sacred places of pilgrimage arose as places of contact, energy fields where anyone could easily begin their inner journey. ‘Today visiting a place of pilgrimage is just a dead ritual for us . . . What can be seen on the surface is not everything; there are hidden meanings which are not visible from the outside’ Osho ‘Suppose we have a key in our hands. We cannot directly understand the purpose of it from the key itself .