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wrong. There is nothing that is wrong in this world. However naam, sthapana and dravya are all vyavahar (interactions related to the world); whereas bhaav is nischay (related to the Self). In vyavahar, they have been doing the same thing over and over, throughout infinite past lives; they have roamed and roamed and roamed and roamed! Throughout the ages, people have become acharyas, sadhus, sadhvis (spiritual leaders and monks), and this is how they have wandered around, but they still have not found the right path.
Moksha: Through Gnan or Bhakti?
Questioner: Is moksha attained through the path of devotion (bhakti marg), or through the path of knowledge (Gnan marg)?
Dadashri: What do you understand by the path of devotion? Bhakti follows after the path of Gnan (knowledge of the Self) begins. Will you not follow the directions that you have been given to go to the station? To follow the directions of the path, from the knowledge (gnan) given to you, is considered bhakti.
What is the real meaning of the word bhakti? This word bhakti incorporates aashraya (the intent and the goal). All these people, to whom I have given Gnan, are also on the path of bhakti. You have to do bhakti (worship) of whomever that shelters you.
Questioner: So is there also a bhakti marg in the Akram path?
Dadashri: “This' is para-bhakti (direct worship of the Self). In the Akram path, the bhakti that one does after attaining the Self is the bhakti of one's own Self. The one, who is making a garland, is doing the bhakti of her own Self, even if she puts the garland on me. Doing the bhakti of a Gnani Purush is essentially the same as doing one's own (of the Self)
