The seers were of the opinion that_____
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The Vedas are the source-books of Indian culture and religion. There are four Vedas: the Rigveda, the Samveda, the Yajurveda and the Atharvaveda. The Rigveda is in poetical form, with more than a thousand hymns in about ten thousand stanzas. The Samveda, almost wholly derived from the Rigveda, is poetry meant to be sung; it has a little less than two thousand stanzas. The Yajurveda (Vajasaniya text) has both poetry and prose, with a total of about two thousand stanzas and prose units. The Atharvaveda has over seven hundred hymns in about six thousand stanzas and prose units. The Yajurveda and the Atharvaveda, too, have many Rigvedic stanzas in them.
The author of the Vedas are the Rishis whose names appear in the hymns, and are remembered along with their hymns or described as the Rishis (seers) of particular hymns in later literature on the Vedas. The Rishi hardly say anything about themselves. In fact, they keep their private personalities apart from the hymns they compose. A Rishi says of the Veda that it is "the first and foremost speech that the sages uttered, giving the unnamed a name, a speech that was their best and most stainless by means of which they revealed with love (prema) the Divine Secret lying hidden in their souls." Elsewhere a Rishi says; "It is not by our human nature that we can know the Deity."
The Vedic people and their descendants had very high regard for the Rishis. A sage in the Rigveda speaks of them as "persons whose words are true". A sage in the Atharvaveda says: "Awe inspiring are the Rishi; to them our homage, to their eyes and to the trust of their spirit." Another sage describes them as "world-builders". In later times people have said of the Rishis that they saw time in its three stages-past, present and future. This can be illustrated from a description of the dawn: "Those mortals are gone who saw the flush of dawn in former ages; we living men see the shining dawn now; and those are coming who will see the dawn in after-ages." Similarly, a Rishi describes the earth as "the mistress" not only of what is, but of what has been and what will be. The Rishis composed the hymns not only for their own time but also for future generations. In a hymn a Rishi is told : "Do not forget, Singer, these words of yours which will resound in after-ages."
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a healthy mind guides a healthy body.