As long as you are a bhakta (a devotee, Bhagwan ), god is separate. Your work is complete when you become God yourself. No one has understood Lord Krishna. Some call him ‘the one with the flute' and others have labeled him as ‘the one frolicking with gopis' . You buy pictures people sell for business and then you start worshipping him. Lord Krishna cannot be like that. He is not what you imagine him to be. You become murta (one with form, the relative self) by worshipping the murta, , and by worshipping the amurta (the formless, the Soul), you become amurta .
Worshipping a picture of Lord Krishna gives you relative benefits and bowing down here (to Dada's feet) will reach directly to his Atma because
Vitraag Lord will not accept it, will he? You need both relative darshan and real darshan , and that is where moksha is.
By principle, everything has two parts: relative and real. By doing darshan of the Lord Krishna in a picture, you send a ‘relative' mail and it reaches Lord Krishna and from the real perspective, you are worshipping your own Atma .