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Rishi (ऋषि) - seer










            The Sanskrit word ‘Rishi’ It comes from the root ‘Rish’, which


              according to Sanskrit grammarians has two meanings, one



              being ‘to go, to move’, and the other being ‘to flow, to move


                                                           near by flowing’.






               The Rishi is thus someone who ‘flows or moves or in tune


               with the rhythmic flow or movement of the universe’. He is


             one with the movement. He vibrates with the vibration of the


                       movement. He knows the whole of the movement.






               The Rishi is the one through whom the secret words of the


            Veda were revealed. He is the one who had the inner sight to


                                                            see the Mantra.







              According to Sri Aurobindo, the Rishi was not the individual


               composer of the hymns but the seer (draṣṭā) of an eternal


                  truth and an impersonal knowledge. The Rishi does not


              merely see, he also hears. To his inner audience‚ the divine


             word comes vibrating out of the Infinite. So, he is also called


                                                  Kavi, the hearer of Truth.







                      A Rishi is the possessor of great spiritual and occult


                               knowledge, the complete inner knowledge.
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