There are people of different views and of different sects in this universe. They worship the God to gain something from him either for themselves or for their families. There are very few who worship the God out of love for him and not for any gains. This is what Shree Samarth says and goes on to add that there are four types of worship of God.
1) Common men consider the icons of Gods as the real God and worship them.
2) Some continuously read and try to remember the lives of the great saints and sages who were the reincarnations of the God.
3) Very few of us worship the inner Atman which is the creator and the sustainer of this universe. He is the most prudent and is witness to everything. He is also the Atman of the real knowledge and is found in all the live matter in the form of feeling.
4) Only the great Saints or Sages who have attained the ultimate, real knowledge worship the Parbrahma or the Atman residing inside every living matter in the form of feelings apart from other less important things.
When one gradually sheds off the bodily feelings he starts to evolve and gets merged into the universal mind. You start perceiving the feelings of the seen and unseen, living and nonliving and everything imaginable and even unimaginable through the medium of the universal mind. The universal mind doesn’t have any shape or form of its own. It becomes visible to the worshipper in its real abstract nature which even the Vedas have been unable to describe as his Sadhana goes on increasing in the right direction. This also vanishes after the Sadhana reaches its zenith. The universal mind is capable of doing anything but the faculty of creation doesn’t stick to it. Everyone doing Sadhana should follow this ideology of the universal mind. He should do everything but never aspire to take any credit for it or even think that he has done it, rather he should always believe that the Parbrahma has got it done through him. He should not hurt anyone by any means whatsoever, which is easier said than done but when you can do this you will have done the biggest and the most fruitful spiritual ritual. Shree Samarth has time and again mentioned this in the Dasbodha. The saints and the sages are able to turn the abstract universal mind into recognizable form for the common man to understand it. Shree Samarth says that only those who have done their Sadhana without expectation and who have all the aforementioned virtues can imitate the saints and the sages.