This is called shanta. Short cut available to us right now, right here. But then i will end with saying why it is not a short cut. Because this short cut comes with, like all e good things, terms and conditions apply. To have meditation, a peaceful mind, a pure mind, is needed. For devotion and meditation, ethical and moral life is needed. And the highest form of morality is unselfishness, altruism. Bakti yoga is needed. Anayoga or raja yoga,. They are not sufficient to give you enlightenment, but often they are necessary conditions. If you feel it's there, but somehow i'm not able to access it,
"The objects of knowledge, viz., sound, touch, etc., which are perceived in the waking state, are different from each other because of their peculiarities; but the consciousness of these, which is different from them, does not differ because of its homogeneity." Inspired by this verse from the book, Pancadasi by Vidyaranya (Ch 1, Verse 3), Swami Sarvapriyananda gives a discourse on direct path of Advaita Vedanta.