2. What The Masters Say
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There have been many enlightened masters from time immemorial. Each of them experienced the Truth in a different way and each of them expressed it in a different way. Each of them had their own set of teachings. If one of them said vegetarian food was good, another would say that it was alright to have non-vegetarian food! Ramakrishna Paramahamsa ate fish and fish is considered vegetarian in Bengal, where he lived. One master would say that you should not enter into marital life in order to get enlightened while another master would say that it was alright to be married, you could still attain enlightenment.
A third master would say that you could have as many wives as you wished to! So the teachings were always never convergent. But on one point, all the masters concurred. On one point they all converged and that was the statement: 'Man as such is bliss!'
All the masters have this statement as their foundation and it is upon this statement, that the rest of their teachings are built.
This is the underlying statement: Man's inherent nature is bliss.