How does one reconcile the fact that there are so many gurus and swamis often suggesting completely different and seemingly contradictory paths to salvation?

How does one reconcile the fact that there are so many gurus and swamis often suggesting completely different and seemingly contradictory paths to salvation?


For the same disease one patient decides to go to an allopathic doctor, another to an ayurvedic doctor and a third trusts a homeopath. For some people allopathy may be helpful and for others ayurveda may be more beneficial.

So even though there are different kinds of doctors practising various systems of medicine and they appear to be prescribing different things, the goal is one and the same i.e. the patient should get cured.

In the same way, when you have so many different kinds of people with different natures and aptitudes, you need a variety of methods and different spiritual teachers to cater to all of them. But the end goal of peace and happiness remains unchanged.

‎Swami Chinmayananda‬ ‪