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bhakti (adoration-veneration). So the definition of bhaktimaarga is that- whatever likings you have, you will have innate adoration for the same. Bhaktimaarga does not mean craziness or personality cultism but whatever you like/ desire or whatever is your aptitude/proclivity, your full efforts will be directed towards that. So if one's quest for self-realisation has arisen, one contemplates only that and thinks about the ways and means to achieve it; than one is coherent with real bhaktimaarga. Thus as long as the answer to what do you like, is a longing or yearn for any worldly things or a personality cult, till that time it should be understood that your bhakti is towards sansara (the vicious cycle of transmigration); and when your answer is self-realization alone, then it should be understood as- the end of your vicious cycle of transmigration is very near. So bhakti means samveg (perseverance for emancipation) which is effective only with vairagya i.e. nirved (aversion to all the ephemeral mundane pleasures of this world) for self-realization. In all the types of donations i.e. abhaydaan (donate fearlessness to all living being), gnyandaan (donate knowledge), annadaan (donate food), dhandaan (donate money),
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