The essence of bhakti (devotion) is love and not formal exercises in japa (recitation) or worship of various kinds. Worship should be offered to the Divine who resides in all beings. Love is God. Live in love. Love is the means of realizing the bliss of the Self, which is centered in ourselves. It need not be sought elsewhere.
It can be found within oneself when all thoughts are controlled and the mind is turned inwards. Dedicate all actions to the Lord. This is the highest knowledge. It is the summum bonum of existence. Love should become a way of life. That alone is true devotion.
Baba
We have to see it in our own life. How do we do that? If nothing is coming to my mind I just write down thoughts until I begin to get into it. Sometimes we have to write us into it or like when we begin to read a book, we have to read ourselves into it, before it gets more interesting and we get that absorbed that we forget time and space around us.
That is the inner level which has to be reached.