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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 attributed to the Rishis.
constant communion with a Even today the Indian mind
universal and eternal is very ready to give the title
consciousness beyond of Rishi to “anyone who can
Mind and saw and knew give a spiritual truth which
from it the deepest truth of helps his life or a formative
Man, Life and Nature. idea and inspiration which
influences religion, ethics,
society, even politics.”
(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.
