No doubt you will know my response to that;
There is also more than one way to get to Rome. The question being; Will we walk, crawl, run, take a boat or fly? And at some time we will ask the same question about going to Mars. I mean you could spend your whole life getting there. Similarly do we we want to take the bullock cart route to enlightenment or the jet route?
Paramahansa Yogananda has stated that it takes one million years of living lives conducive to self-realization to become one with God. And in the many lectures I have heard the brothers of SRF say that some souls are actually back here on earth from billions of years of another created universe. In other words they had to wait billions of years in the void when there was no physical universe to come back again when a universe was created to work our their physical desires in the material universe.
Souls who are progressing quicker and want to find enlightenment this life time or perhaps in a soon to come life time are looking for ways to progress quicker spiritually speaking. If that were not the case I would never have created this site with friends that have similar aspirations. And most likely there would not be the people who have came here. We are seekers looking for spiritual enlightenment.
And you know my response, whatever works for you, PY could be right, could be wrong. Only your belief matters. Going to Mars or Rome are not even close to the route to enlightenment, you cannot make any comparative analogy.
It could very well be that if you were waiting in the void, it wasn't really a void, it's only what you are allowed to remember on this planet. There is no way to know for sure.
There are many ways to progress faster, comes down to understanding. But it's foolish to say that if something works for you, if others don't do it that way, well then you're not doing it right and it will take you longer.
