SALVATION

45. Salvation ~ 136 ~ This is man’s greatest problem. To what should he give the greatest attention so that he may not be held undeserving in the life to come? Everyone has to himself exert to the utmost in the consciousness that in the next stage of his life he may by defau1t be considered without merit. Then there would be no further scope for him to earn God’s blessings, salvation would elude him completely. The next world is the most perfect and eternal world. There, all kinds of pleasures and happiness have been stored up for mankind. It is that world which man should cherish most, and it should be the place to which he most earnestly aspires. But the time for action to secure a place in that blessingfilled world is not the world after death, but the world before death. The present world is the place for action, while the next world is the place for reaping the reward for one’s deeds. Salvation in the life Hereafter is only for those who prove themselves deserving of it in this world.