Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?

You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you begin spiritual practices to transcend these non-existing limits. But if your practice itself implies the existence of these limits, how could they allow you to transcend them.

All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.

Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness

Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.

The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.

Yogas chitta vritti nirodhah - (Yoga is to check the mind from changing) - which is acceptable to all. That is also the goal of all. The method is chosen according to one's own fitness. The goal for all is the same. Yet different names are given to the goal only to suit the process preliminary to reaching the goal. Bhakti, Yoga, Jnana are all the same.