Page 4 - Seers and Sages of India

Rishis of India

The founders of Indian The Rishi is the natural

culture were not ordinary director of society; all the

men or mere intellectual ideals and guiding intuitions

thinkers but spiritual seers, of Indian civilisation are

Rishis, who lived in constant attributed to the Rishis. Even

communion with a universal today the Indian mind is very

and eternal consciousness ready to give the title of Rishi

beyond Mind and saw and to “anyone who can give a

knew from it the deepest spiritual truth which helps his

truth of Man, Life and life or a formative idea and

Nature. inspiration which influences

religion, ethics, society, even

politics.”

Sri Aurobindo

CWSA, 20:113

Our ancestors attempted to build human society on the

foundations of some universal spiritual and psychological

principles which govern human life. The values and ideals of

Indian culture are based on and evolved from these deeper

spiritual discoveries of our Rishis.