ṛṣis

But if necessity calls you to engage with it, then be pliant toward the age and do not deal roughly with it, for one of the sages has said:

One of the sages has said:

One of the sages has said:

In it I have gathered the choicest sayings of the sages on the noble traits of character and their brightest blazes, and the scattered gold of the maxims of the excellent on the beauties of good conduct and their pearls;

( Part One ) on the universal principles of the science of character (ʻilm al-akhlāq) ( Its First Chapter ) on its preliminaries and its first principles ( The Second Chapter ) on its objects of inquiry and its aims ( Part Two ) on the particular branches of the beauties of character ( Its First Chapter ) on the counsels of the sages and the rules of conduct profitable in every department ( The Se …

'As for him who was insolent and preferred the life of this world, the Fire shall be his refuge' — and at another time from the sages, by what they demonstrated of the great wretchedness of the souls of the wicked and the dissolute in the life to come, after their parting from bodies.

To behold Rāma bearing the supreme weapon, the hosts of sages and the gods, with Brahmā the Grandfather at their head, assembled there in multitudes.

Then all the bands of sages, gathered together with one another, filled with great joy, passed that night in happiness.

Beholding him of terrifying aspect, blazing as if he were fire, the brāhmaṇas headed by Vasiṣṭha — all the sages devoted to prayer and oblation — gathered and began to murmur to one another.

He with whom as ally the ṛṣis shone apart Vala, through whom the sorceries of the Asuras were cut away, that Agni with whom Indra conquered the Paṇis — may he release us from distress.

I pay homage to you as the seers do — O Heaven and Earth, be gracious to me — release us from distress.

Eight portions are Indra's, six are Yama's, seven sevenfold belong to the seers;

In order to atone for the sin committed in all these successively, five great sacrifices were ordained by the great sages for householders to perform daily.

Whatever merit has been declared by Manu for each of these marriages, hear it all, O sages, as I declare it all to you.

Now learn from what source all of these have their origin, and by what rules and by whom they are to be worshipped. // Mn_3.193[183M] //

Having honored Yājñavalkya, the lord of yogis, the sages spoke:

Having heard these `*dharma*`s spoken by Yājñavalkya, the sages spoke this to that great-souled one, the lord of yogis of immeasurable splendor:

"Those who will diligently master this Dharmaśāstra, having obtained fame in this world, will go to heaven.

On the demonstrations which the sages have uttered concerning the relation of the rational soul to the body and its parts;

“The gazing of intellects, as it ought to be, is either from the pure intellect or from the science of the verifying sages.

And just as the king does not put wealth and horses and arms within the reach of the governors and rulers, lest they disobey his command and attempt destruction, so likewise the soul must not put excess within the reach of the bodily faculties, in such a way that they do not overpower it;

rather you should listen to the poets and learn from the sages and so equip your mind to judge those who are inferior and to emulate those who are superior to yourself;

For, besides what I have said of them, they look upon men of wisdom with suspicion, while they regard men of no understanding as open and sincere;

Regard as wise men, not those who dispute subtly about trifling matters, but those who speak well on the great issues;

Except that, when the sages looked into deliberation and discrimination, they found the two of them issuing from a faculty (quwwah) higher than themselves, and they went on tracing one thing after another until they arrived at an end beyond which there is no end.

and whether this great thing for which man is a candidate, with his nobility and the loftiness of his worth, is to be had without striving and exertion, or without an art and habituation, and by some road other than the one the sages laid out and trod and urged the sons of wisdom towards;

As for the other case, in which the part of practice is strong and the part of theory weak, it occurs only to one who lends an ear to the sages and gives credence to their sayings and takes their fine acts as his model, thinking well of them, even if soundness in that is not made easy for him by theory;

The master, the learned and excellent Muʼayyid al-Dawlah wa-al-Dīn, exemplar of the geometers, decreed that I should write for him something setting forth the benefit of the sages who have verified the matter concerning the survival of the human soul after the perishing of the body.

May that, O heroes, O Nāsatyas, follow you — what the sages of inspired mind have uttered in praise of you.

May we win a thousand with the ṛṣis — may we know the winning path and the life-giving community.

> In water is the god of the twice-born, for sages the deity is in heaven.

So says the deluded one, for he is considered to hold a dualistic view by the wise.

For sages, their deity’s abode is in heaven.

Thus spoke the Lord, instructing the revered Kumāra in the *upadeśa* and the *tattva* of the host of *ṛṣis*.

The class of *ṛṣis* says the Lord's authority is in the sky.

the deity of the ṛṣis is in heaven.

To Yama, residing in his hermitage, seated comfortably, a master of the Vedas and Śāstras, / the sages approached and asked, their minds held in check.

The Sages:

When a woman has to choose between two lovers, one of whom was formerly united with her, while the other is a stranger, the Acharyas (sages) are of opinion that the first one is preferable, because his disposition and character being already known by previous careful observation, he can be easily pleased and satisfied;

When there are two lovers, one of whom is attached to the courtesan, and the other is simply very generous, the Sages say that the preference should be given to the generous lover, but Vatsyayana is of opinion that the one who is really attached to the courtesan should be preferred, because he can be made to be generous, even as a miser gives money if he becomes fond of a woman, but a man who is s …

When an occasion for complying with the request of a friend, and a chance of getting money come together, the Sages say that the chance of getting money should be preferred.

for the seers had declared that while there would be fighting to do, the issue of the expedition would be fortunate.

After many victims had been sacrificed all the seers finally declared the opinion that the gods in no wise permitted war.