By: G.M.Saxena.

The world is like an inn where travelers stay for a short duration and then depart. It is like the market place where diverse types of people gather for business and then leave for their respective places. Just as an inn, the departing travelers feel sorry to leave their temporary acquaintances, with whom they had passed some days and become close, in the world also we find relations, friends and near ones crying and wailing for the departed ones. As in an inn, we find the people feverishly busy and interested in their pursuits with an eye on the predetermined date of departure, in the world also everybody is engrossed in his pursuits but with the difference that neither the date of departure is known nor it is in the hands of the individuals to determine it . At the time of his end, the individuals realises that it was all a delusion, because the world in which he lived was actually not his real abode and that the companions, friends and relations that he called his own, were also 'visitors' to the worldly inn, where there is nothing permanent .

In this world, most of the time we remain engrossed in earning money for food, clothing and shelter as also to save something for a rainy day. Our planing is for hundred years or more, but suddenly our life betrays and all our hard - earned acquisitions are left behind. Even then money has become the be-all and end-all of human life.

Just as in an inn, we remember every moment that our stay is temporary in the world also we must remember that our stay is not only temporary but also uncertain because in the case of an inn the programme of our stay is in our hands, but here in the world the programme is fixed by the destiny . Therefore, we must set out priorities and avail of the life span to achieve the prime aim of human life. One thing, which needs to be clearly noted, is that at the time of death one may cry or beg for a fresh lease of life or even one extra breath, but it will be of no avail. Within a few moments of death, the vital organs like the heart, the liver, the brain, become lifeless. Bearing all these factors in mind salvation should be given the first priority in life, which is actually meant to achieve this very noble aim. Those who regard ‘eat, drink and be merry’ the aims of rare human life, waste it away. Its real aim is union of the soul with the Over Soul. One may be literate or illiterate, black or white, high or low, rich or low, rich or poor, this ought to be his first priority. Union with the Over Soul can be attained only by the grace of a Spiritual Mentor or Satguru . The Satguru is the person who himself is in communion with God and is able to establish the same between the seeking soul and the Over Soul.

People believe that salvation or merger of the soul in the Over Soul is achieved after death. It would be pertinent to point out here that if we have not known and integrated ourselves with God while we are alive, merger in Him or salvation after death is not at all possible. Therefore, God-realisation should be the first priority of our life. If we do so, our merger in the Over Soul becomes not only certain but also spontaneous.

Sometimes we hear people argue that salvation is of no interest to them because they are enjoying comforts, conveniences and luxuries and are quite happy. Such people are ignorant because they do not know that the Creator, who has bestowed these bounties, is Himself an inexhaustible treasure house of matchless happiness, satisfaction and contentment. Therefore, by ‘attaining’ Him-Salvation-man attains abiding peace, bliss and happiness. This is the teaching of all religions. Every messenger of God has laid stress on the elevation and sublimation of the inherent divinity in man with the benevolence of the Satguru to the extent that the soul should be united with the Divine Most  Supreme Soul - during the life-span, which is the First Priority.