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What is the difference between the speech of worldly saints and ancient rishis?

Worldly saints speak to please society, while ancient rishis utter words born of silence that awaken the soul rather than entertain the mind.

— Osho
According to Osho, a ‘worldly saint’ is a contradiction: such people speak from the gross, sugarcoating ego and social convention; their words please society but lack the fragrance of the subtle. Ancient rishis speak from direct vision of the divine; their utterances are uncompromising, mantric, born of silence, and reveal meaning rather than follow it—they awaken, not entertain.

Fake holy people talk to fit in; real seers speak from what they’ve truly seen, even if it stings.

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