Bhakthi mostly defies logic. Any one in bhakthi can be closely associated with a person who is mad and there is every possibility they will treated as such. The reverse is also true. A mad person in all probabilities will look like a Bhaktha. How to distinguish them? A very tough question indeed. Only with experience we can find it. Let me not go further into it and stay with the topic
Let me take an example. One of name of Lord Vishnu is Madhavan. I don’t know it actually means and also don’t want to know.
Whenever I hear this name, I get two thoughts.
1. Ma + Davan – A person who does a lot of penance.
2. A person who does great penance reaches him.
Both appears to convey a wrong meaning?!!
This helps me to connect with him and think about him whenever I hear the word Madhavan. So without going into the Logic/Meaning, my thoughts remain with him. This name also reminds me that I will have to focus on Meditation.
Saint Valmiki repeated “Mara Mara” instead of saying “Rama Rama” and got the god’s blessing. The meaning I understand for “Mara” is evil i.e the reverse. For Bhakthi, the intention matters and not the meaning.
I feel that whatever helps us to connect us with God is Bhakthi. The very purpose is to stay connected and not the meaning. To me, it does not matter whether there is any logic or not to it.