The sage in the East is regarded everywhere with respect, whether he be a murshid, a sadhu, a sanyasin, or a saint. The name does not signify. One will hear that Hindu and Buddhist and Sufi sages are all different from one another. Well, that is true; they can be different just as in Western countries there are differences in the churches. For all that, there is really no difference between the sadhu, the sannyasi, and the saint. Both Hindu and Muslim will bow before the sage whether he be Buddhist, Vedantist, or Sufi. No one makes any distinction. Every sage is just a person on the path of truth, and no people respect him, though the feeling which one receives form a sage may be a little different in each case. But they all bring with them a light and an inspiration which are quite remarkable, as I know form my own experience.