महर्षयः सप्त पूर्वे चत्वारो मनवस्तथा । मद्भावा मानसा जाता येषां लोक इमाः प्रजाः ॥
maharṣayaḥ sapta pūrve catvāro manavastathā | madbhāvā mānasā jātā yeṣāṃ loka imāḥ prajāḥ ||
Translation
The seven great seers of ancient times, and the four Manus, born of My mind and established in My nature — from them have come all these creatures in the world.
Interpretation
The great lineages of wisdom and human civilization trace back to the Divine. The seven great rishis (sapta maharshis — the progenitors of Vedic wisdom) and the four Manus (progenitors of humanity in four world cycles) — all born of the Divine's mind (mad-bhava manasa jata — born from My nature, from My thought). The lineage of all knowledge and all human life is thus divine. This is not mythology but a cosmological statement: consciousness itself is the origin of all that is wise, noble, and life-giving in human civilization.