Is chanting a service to Krishna or our expression of love to Krishna?

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Question is chanting an expression for love for Krishna or is it a service to Krishna? Answer the two are not mutually exclusive. The word service to Krishna is used in the sense of one being a servant and just as a servant is obliged to do something because of some external purpose some external fear or some external hope for gain then that is not the actual level at which we do chanting.
We chant because we love Krishna. We chant because we desire to love Krishna. So, right now at the stage of sadhana we may do sadhana including chanting at the level of duty.
So, there are four levels fear, desire, duty and love. So, at the purest level, for example, when the gopis sing govinda dhamo dharma dhaveti as Mangal Thakura has described as govinda dhamo dhara stotra then they are doing it out of love for Krishna. They are not doing it as a sense of duty.
But either way chanting helps us to make spiritual advancement. So, when we choose to love Krishna, we make spiritual advancement by that. Even if we don’t feel love right now we have the desire to love Krishna and we chant always.
Even when we love Krishna or whether we don’t feel love for Krishna right now, we just desire to love Krishna. We actually render chanting in the mood of service. Krishna, I am your servant and I want to serve you.
Please engage me in service. That is always the mood of chanting. This service is not like material service.
Actually, the service, Srila Prabhupada explains the relationship of servant and served, in the case of the devotee and the Lord, is the most intimate form of intimacy and is entirely different from the hostility that is characteristic of similar relationships in the material world. So, we serve Krishna through chanting and we express our love to Him through chanting. Both have been