In Shikshashtakam 1, why does knowledge come after emotion?

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It’s even when a devotee has an emotional relationship with Krishna, the devotee has the intention to serve Krishna, still there has to be some knowledge about how to serve Krishna, practically.
So, this is definitely if you look at the flow, this is not sattva sanjayati jnanam. That is, the knowledge comes the most. We can apply it over there, but if you look at the flow over here, the material existence is far gone.
And we are coming to the advanced stages of transcendental existence. That’s why it’s not so much of, this is not the knowledge of whether I should serve Krishna or I should serve Maya. This is not the knowledge that, okay, I should resist temptation and I should serve Krishna.
This is more the knowledge of how I should serve Krishna. I am already convinced that my life is meant for serving Krishna, but within that, should I serve like this or should I serve like that? So, that is this knowledge which has been talked about. Yeah, but even when I experience reciprocation with Krishna, it is spiritual life is dynamic.
So, every day we say Radharani cooks every day for Krishna. So, every day she experiences ecstasy when she serves Krishna, but the next day she has to cook again. She has to think, what should I serve, what should I cook for Krishna now? So, knowledge and experience in that sense, they are not necessarily sequential.
They are symbiotic. You know, the knowledge feeds the experience and the experience feeds the knowledge. Okay, so Radharani serves Krishna, Krishna likes this very much.
Then let me cook something similar today. And then like that, they both move in parallel. Yes, sir? Just real quick, I missed a point about