1. The Aim of Life-God

The one and only, supreme and ultimate aim of mankind is to have the realization of the Supreme Lord (Parmatma), achieve com­plete unity and be one with His divine form. This is mentioned in many holy-scriptures. Each living being seeks happi­ness (prosperity), peace and joy which are complete, durable and everlasting; and desires to become free from all pains and adversi­ties. This condition is possible only on realizing the divine form of the Supreme Lord-Parmatma; but cannot be attained by any other means.

Human-life is meant for grasping the truth by proper discrimination between truth and untruth; but its basic aim is to achieve pure, durable and perpetual happiness being relieved from all types of miseries and pains.

Our subject for contemplation over a prolonged period should not be other than, to think over the worthiness of human birth. Our mind should be cleared i.e. without any doubt, through resolution of the same, and then this condition of steadfast intellect has to be made firm every moment. Then and then only we can progress towards the aim of ultimate salvation.

There are two paths of living 'Prey Marg' i.e. path of worldly enjoyments and 'Shrey Marg' i.e. the path of attainment of eternal divine bliss of Supreme God. 'Prey Marg' is full of sufferings and is wastage of invaluable human birth. Whereas the 'Shrey Marg' makes the human birth worthy by attainment of the eternal peace and bliss of Supreme Lord (Parmatma). Worshipper, on the path of betterment of life, should aim at achieving the ultimate liberation and should try to firmly concentrate at that aim.

The aim of achieving God is neither accomplished by gathering incomplete knowledge from here and there nor simply pondering - meditating upon it. For that one should keep on testing onself by self-observation, with total awareness followed by uninterrupted efforts for years together.

Many people aim at achieving salvation just driven by emotions. But they conclude upon that, without testing their aim on the scale of experience; without deciding what binds and what enhances, without understanding their own limitations and strengths. Such resolution does not last long. According to the famous lines by great Sadguru Nishkulanand Swami, "Renunciation cannot survive without asceticism"; such resolutions are washed out by worldly allurements.

Even after deciding the aim of achieving God and taking some decisions regarding it, one finds some loopholes in oneself on self-observation. While observing minutely, one finds more and more defects in oneself. On being conscious about those defects one becomes eager to conquer them. One develops a strong affection towards the aim of achieving God on such continuous internal struggle and becomes sure that attain­ment of God only, comprises of eternal happiness and peace. The understanding about the discrimination becomes firm only when all the things other than that aim are found to be painful, miserable and immaterial.

The person, who cannot discriminate between the aim of a saintly person and the spiritually insignificant aim of a materialistic person, keeps on roaming within the cycle of birth and death.

On making - 'achievement of God' - as the prime aim there arises a very staunch faith in the observance of rules and regulations formed by God as well as in actual practice of 'Panchvartman' (The five basic morals); and also arises an extraordinary devotion and ultimate love towards the divine form of the Almighty God.

One can proceed on the path of achieving God - by making Him the prime aim, only if one is ready to follow the Truth: which is not differed by any course of time.

God helps and protects the worshipper, by all means, who has decided 'The achievement of God' as his prime aim - God also cares for his livelihood.

When it is decided that God is the only aim of life, the devotee comes across many different types of opinions-religions, sects, priests, preachers, scriptures etc. Most of the spiritual priests lack the experience of spirituality. They are stubborn, selfish, hypocrite and are concerned about their own vested interests. What religion, which belief, which worship, which preceptor should be followed -are the huge chal­lenges for a worshipper. In such case one should, faithfully and whole-heartedly, keep on praying the Supreme Lord (Parmatma) who is the superiormost, who is all-pervading (omnipresent), who knows every thing (omniscient), who is the most powerful (omnipotent). As a result, the worshipper receives true guidance as well as God brings him in contact of a true preceptor. During the search for Guru instead of following blindly, one should use one’s own rationality. One should keep on watching whether the preacher possesses the qualities of welfare as those possessed by God? Has he realized God? Is it sheer hypocracy? The reality of a Guru can be diagnosed by such watchful observations. Clarifications regarding Supreme Lord’s (Parmatma’s) knowledge, worship and religion is possible only after having such a real spiritual master. There after, one can easily progress on the path of worship.