Why do we talk about the benefits of chanting when we are meant to chant selflessly for Krishna’s pleasure?

From sri bhagwan das

we should not look into the benefits of chanting. we should go on & increase no. of rounds as much as possible. All our efforts are aimed to please Krishna. He,however may not accept or please but we have to work in that direction only.

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Hare Krishna Question from Shri Bhagawan Prabhu This is based on the article Peace, Purity and Pleasure, the Benefits of Chanting Why do we talk about the benefits of chanting when we are meant to chant simply for Krishna’s pleasure and we should try to chant as much as possible and Krishna may or not be accepted but we should chant as a service Answer Yes at the highest, purest level we chant simply for Krishna’s pleasure as a service to him but just as there are levels of education and we can’t teach triple integral calculus to to a junior KG student or a primary school student similarly we cannot expect selflessness pure spiritual selflessness at the initial stage of spiritual life for those who are just about to begin spiritual life so at that stage we do talk about the benefits of chanting and by that so even in the spiritual realm also Bhaktivinoda Thakur describes about different levels at which people approach God, fear, desire, duty and love so he recognizes this is a reality. Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksha is also in the Vedic context so people do Dharma for Artha and Kama that is not our aspiration.
Our aspiration is definitely far higher but how do we begin we begin by telling people about the benefits and then gradually as their understanding evolves then their understanding of what is actually the one’s benefit also changes so as Prahlad Maharaj says that people do not know that their Svartha Gati is actually Vishnu. Svartha word is often used negatively as in the sense of selfishness but it is not always negative. Svartha one’s own interest so our actual interest is Vishnu that means the more we satisfy Vishnu the more we become satisfied just as when you water the root of a tree all the leaves are nourished so that is definitely a fact but that is not something which people can intellectually or experientially understand in the initial stages so therefore initially we talk about the benefits of chanting and even in the article also when I talk about the benefits of chanting I did mention at the level of pleasure that we chant not to gain pleasure but simply out of love for the pleasure of the beloved and naturally pleasure comes to us as a result of that so we can if we impose the post doctorate level triple integral calculus to a KG student we will frighten the person away and that student will not start studying maths even the junior KG level similarly if we talk about the utterly selfless nature of pure love and expect people to spend their time for chanting what is the motive for people to chant so therefore there are levels at which we can present spirituality and certainly as serious devotees we focus on chanting as a service to Krishna and for his pleasure as an expression of love and we focus we don’t worry about the benefits we focus simply on the reciprocation that is definitely true for advanced devotees not necessarily for advanced devotees but for serious devotees who have understood the principles of Krishna consciousness at the same time by talking with new people we can present the benefits and gradually help them to come to the level of serious selfless devotion thank you