A Rishi is one who
sees or discovers an inner truth and puts it into self-effective language – the mantra. Either new truth or old truth made new by expression and intuitive realisation.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
CWSA 27
Fragment ID: 6631
The Poet, the Yogi and the Rishi [3]
A Rishi is one who
sees or discovers an inner truth and puts it into self-effective language – the mantra. Either new truth or old truth made new by expression and intuitive realisation.
He [Ramana Maharshi] has experienced certain eternal truths by process of Yoga – I don’t think it is by Rishilike intuition or illumination, nor has he the mantra.
10 February 1936