Fom time immemorial, India produced many great saints and sages, who demonstrated through their lives, the characteristics of a perfect man. The light emitting from them cleared the path for many struggling souls and showered the nectar of peace and happiness on them. The study of these great lives and their teachings will certainly be a source of inspiration to every one.
I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
-Swami Vivekananda