Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism -- all are methods, different devices pointing to the same goal. That goal is awareness, and only through awareness does bliss arrive. To live in unawareness, to live unconsciously like a robot, like a zombie -- as millions of people are doing -- is to live in misery. Ninety-nine point nine percent of people are living that way -- a robotlike existence. Yes, they get up in the morning and they go to the office, and they do their things. They eat and they sleep and they make love, and they do all kinds of things. But all is being done like a machine, without any real awareness of what they are doing, without any real awareness of who they are, without any real awareness from where they are coming and to where they are going. These people remain in misery.
The moment one starts getting a little more aware about one's acts, about one's movements of the body, movements in the mind, thought processes, movements of the emotions and feelings, and slowly slowly aware of the inner self -- of 'Who am I?' -- then the first rays of bliss have entered and soon there will be great light inside you. That light is called samadhi, ecstasy.