Is the goal of commitment to please Krishna or to penetrate through the initial poison?

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please Krishna and Vaishnavas or is it simply to penetrate through the poison to the nectar yeah both happen naturally see we all need happiness because that’s what we are by nature we are sat chit ananda ananda is a part of our nature so we naturally look for happiness so just to look for happiness in itself is not necessarily self selfish or self centered it is the very feature of our self but when it becomes a problem is when we look for happiness in ways that are harmful to us harmful to others that becomes a problem and even in bhakti when we start looking only for happiness then also we just we again start evading responsibility evading commitments and just doing things whatever the mind thinks will make us happy so when we are trying to practice bhakti we are focusing on developing a relationship with Krishna and developing a relationship with Krishna means trying to please him trying to please his representatives that is naturally a part of bhakti and as we keep doing this a natural result of that is that we also get to the nectar so both happen parallel but see the mind is tricky and we have to like yesterday I said because the mind tries to trick us we have to out trick it sometimes if you tell the mind don’t think about happiness think only about pleasing Krishna the mind will say why? why should I do that? what am I going to get by that? so that time you can tell the mind actually you will get a lot of happiness there also so ultimately you want to develop a relationship with Krishna and that relationship means we want to have a mood of service where we try to please him but we have to we have to find out the way in which we can keep ourselves committed to that process and sometimes contemplating that actually there is a lot of happiness there that may be what is required for us to stay committed