When a devotee does bhakti activities for someone else what actually happens?

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So when a devotee gives blessings to someone or a devotee prays for someone or fasts on Ekadashi for someone or decides to do some service and offer the results of that service to someone, what actually happens? So does it actually work or what actually happens? See, there is Karmakanda and there is Bhakti. So in Karmakanda there is the possibility that you can do some particular ritual and pray that the results of this go to some other person. So we have in the 9th canto the example that, who was it who gave Yayati his youth? Pura.
Pura. Kuru. Kuru.
Yeah, so he gave his youth to his father. So in some cases by some mystical means some material things can be transferred and that way the pious credits or some dharmic activity can also be transferred. This is with respect to primarily aparadharma.
Now with respect to paradharma, the whole point is that it is not quantifiable. That, okay, I chanted Hare Krishna 64 rounds today. Is it that, okay, by this I have made this much advancement and Krishna from my consciousness you please take up this much attraction to you and give it to this person.
So when we talk about, when we talk about, when we talk about spiritual growth, spiritual growth essentially means attraction towards Krishna and getting attracted towards Krishna is something which every individual has to choose. So my practicing bhakti will increase my attraction towards Krishna. My practicing bhakti is not going to increase somebody else’s attraction towards Krishna.
Directly. And whatever purification I have made, it is not that the purification is transferable. So if we have practiced bhakti, we will get the purification.
It is not that if I practice bhakti, the purification will not come to me. The attraction to Krishna is going to come to me. But at the same time, our intent is appreciated by Krishna.
And Krishna seeing our intent, seeing our selflessness, our purity, Krishna will increasingly facilitate that person to practice bhakti. Krishna will increasingly facilitate that person that whatever obstacles are in their life, they can be removed. So because bhakti is not quantifiable, so because the results of bhakti are not quantifiable, so we cannot really say the results of bhakti are directly transferable also.
But still the principle is that Krishna is a person and he reciprocates with us as a person. So if we have the intention that Krishna, I am doing this extra devotional service, so that this devotee can be benefited, then Krishna will definitely take that into account and Krishna will definitely ease things for that person. So whether it is in terms of removing obstacles or it is in terms of giving inner wisdom, giving inner guidance, that may vary according to time, place and circumstance.
So our intent of offering the fruits of our doing a particular devotional activity for Krishna, for somebody else, that is very good. That will definitely benefit. But it is not literally quantifiable.
This activity, this much result will go to that person. Because bhakti itself is not quantifiable. Does it address your question?