Page 2 - Seers and Sages of India

Bhārata – The Land of Seers and Sages

“A nation tends to throw out its most vivid types in that line

of action which is most congenial to its temperament and

expressive of its leading idea, and it is the great saints and

religious personalities that stand at the head in India and

present the most striking and continuous roll-call of

greatness, just as Rome lived most in her warriors and

statesmen and rulers. The Rishi in ancient India was the

outstanding figure with the hero just behind, while in later

times the most striking feature is the long uninterrupted

chain from Buddha and Mahavira to Ramanuja,

Chaitanya, Nanak, Ramdas and Tukaram and beyond

them to Ramakrishna and Vivekananda and Dayananda.”

(Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, 20: 246)

The Indian mind holds that the Rishi, the seer of spiritual truth is the

best guide not only of the religious and moral,

but also the practical life.