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The concept of a saint refers to an individual revered for their spiritual wisdom and virtue across various world traditions. Many traditions converge in their esteem for saints as exemplars of spiritual attainment. However, they diverge in their specific understandings and veneration of these figures.

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Having thus acquired the rare gift of Devotion the sage prepared a funeral pile and discarding all attachment from his heart ascended it.
Tulsidas
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Ramcharitmanas — Aranya Kand (verses 647–710), p. 12
The sages, united with pure reason, renounce the results of their actions and, liberated from the cycle of birth, they attain a state of bliss.
Swami Sivananda
HinduScriptureAttainmentLiberation
Practice of Karma Yoga, p. 29
The psychic personality within us blossoms as the saint, the sage, or the seer. When it reaches its full potential, it directs the being toward self-awareness and the divine, toward the highest truth, goodness, beauty, love, and bliss, and the divine expanses, opening us to the experience of spiritual sympathy, universality, and oneness.
Sri Aurobindo
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The Life Divine, p. 253
One gets liberated either due to their karma or with the help of saints
Guru Nanak
SikhScriptureHelpfulnessKarmaPunjabi
Japji Sahib (Gurmukhi and English), p. 19
You saints, however, must wish for the welfare of all. This feeling takes root in the heart only when we see the image of the Formless One - God, in each and every human being.
Baba Hardev Singh Ji
UniversalTeachingOnenessSaint
Gurdev Hardev Part 2, p. 109
Saints always show love only. The world may show any amount of hatred, but we must not leave our path of love.
Baba Hardev Singh Ji
UniversalTeachingLoveSaint
Gurdev Hardev Part 2, p. 110
All that brings happiness in life is achieved through the grace of the company of saints. The more we attend congregations, the more our life becomes enriched with saintly qualities. Our heart begins to absorb love and humility, which are the sources of all kinds of happiness.
Baba Hardev Singh Ji
UniversalTeachingAttainmentBenevolence
Gurdev Hardev Part 2, p. 90
Kabir says that this earth belongs to the saints, but thieves have occupied it and are exploiting it. The earth cannot bear the burden of such sinners, but it endures because of the saints.
Kabir
UniversalScripturePatienceSaint
Stream of Thoughts, p. 14
This is why saints always live in God's bliss and constantly praise Him.
Baba Gurbachan Singh Ji
UniversalTeachingPurposeSaint
The Master Speaks, p. 10
Saints know that wealth, body, and soul are gifts from God and belong to Him.
Baba Gurbachan Singh Ji
UniversalTeachingKnowledgeSaint
The Master Speaks, p. 10
Saints love God for the sake of love, and a devotee never complains.
Baba Gurbachan Singh Ji
UniversalTeachingDevoteeLove
The Master Speaks, p. 10
A saint lives according to God's will.
Baba Gurbachan Singh Ji
UniversalTeachingHarmonySaint
The Master Speaks, p. 9
Saint Kabir says: Brother, why fear Maya? One who has realized the Truth can overcome it.
Kabir
UniversalTeachingOnenessPurpose
Living Reality, p. 20
Even the gods, celestial singers, divine musicians, ancestral spirits, yakṣas, wandering bards, and the sages themselves do not fully know the proper manner of serving the Guru.
HinduScriptureGuruKnowledgeSanskrit
Guru Gita 84
Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Maheśa, divine seers, ancestors, celestial musicians, perfected beings, bards, yakṣas, and all other sages and beings — (none of these attain success without the grace that comes through service to the Guru).
HinduScriptureAttainmentGraceSanskrit
Guru Gita 173
Arise, be awake, and having found the great ones, learn from them. For the path is sharp as a razor's edge, hard to traverse, and difficult to follow, as the sages say.
Vedic Sages
HinduTeachingKnowledgeOneness
The Upanishads — Texts, Translations and Commentaries, p. 213
The invisible and ungraspable, devoid of relationships and color, without eyes or ears, without hands or feet, is eternal, pervasive, and present in all things. It is impalpable, imperishable, and the womb of all creation, beheld by wise sages everywhere.
Vedic Sages
HinduTeachingSaintWisdom
The Upanishads — Texts, Translations and Commentaries, p. 178
The Vedantic sages sought to know, live in, and be one with the self through an integral knowing, which is necessary for direct knowledge to be complete.
Vedic Sages
HinduTeachingKnowledgeOneness
The Upanishads — Texts, Translations and Commentaries, p. 9
The devotion to Hari is scarce attainable even by the sages, but it can be easily attained by men who constantly listen to this story with faith.
Tulsidas
HinduTeachingAttainmentDevotionSanskrit
Ramcharitmanas — Uttar Kand Part 2 (verses 1023–1101), p. 73
Butter melts only when heated by fire, whereas holy saints melt with compassion at the suffering of others.
Tulsidas
HinduTeachingSaintCompassionSanskrit
Ramcharitmanas — Uttar Kand Part 2 (verses 1023–1101), p. 72