Darshana - The Vision of the Ancient Rishes

The root rish can also means to go. It can also mean to see. So based on that, you can guess hat the meaning of darshana is, literally seeing. We talk about a the vision of the ancient rishes. The rishes had access to a kind of truth that no one else seemed to have access to. And those rishis are the ones from whom all four parts of the vedas come from. Those six schools of thought collectively are called darsana. Darshna then describes what those richis saw, what the rishis discovered. I like that word discover. Vedanta is not about science, which is limited to your five