Bhagavad Gita · Mahabharata Codex

The four Kumaras

कुमार · kumāra

Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanatana and Sanatkumara: sages who remain children for ever

Asked to help create the world, they chose to stay free of it.

The four Kumaras were the first sons born from Brahma's mind. He asked them to populate the world, and they refused, preferring a life of knowledge and celibacy; they are pictured as boys of five for all time. Sanatkumara appears in the Mahabharata as a teacher of the deathless Self.