Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.

People came to Ramana Maharshi for darshana devotion to God by looking at him in the person of a guru or incarnation. Measures had to be taken to prevent people touching him. Those are based on written transcripts which were "hurriedly written down in English by his official interpreters".

Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950) is widely acknowledged as being one of the outstanding Indian Gurus of modern times. At the age of sixteen Venkataraman became enlightened.