सततं कीर्तयन्तो मां यतन्तश्च दृढव्रताः।नमस्यन्तश्च मां भक्त्या नित्ययुक्ता उपासते॥
satataṃ kīrtayanto māṃ yatantaś ca dṛḍha-vratāḥnamasyantaś ca māṃ bhaktyā nitya-yuktā upāsate
Word by word
The verse says
Always speaking of me, striving, firm in what they have undertaken, bowing to me with love, always joined — so they worship.
In plain words
Four things, all of them physical: speaking, striving, holding to a vow, bowing.
Notice what is not on the list. No requirement to understand anything.
Devotion here has a body. It is made of what people actually do, week after week.
Where you've felt this · in community
The same four people set out the chairs before every meeting at the community hall, and stack them again afterwards. Nobody appointed them and nobody thanks them properly. They have been doing it so long that the hall would feel wrong if they were not in it at half past six.
Going deeper
Devotion described as activity rather than feeling is the useful part of this verse.
Every item is something a person does with a body in a place: singing, trying, keeping to something undertaken, bowing. None of it depends on being in the mood, and none of it requires the understanding the chapter has been discussing for thirteen verses.
That ordering is deliberate and it runs against the modern instinct. We tend to think feeling comes first and action expresses it, so acting without the feeling is hypocrisy. This book has the arrow pointing the other way often enough that it cannot be an accident.
Which gives you something to do on the days when nothing is felt. Turn up and set out the chairs. The feeling is not the entry fee, and it is not reliable enough to be one.