Is it ok to savor the good feelings we get while practicing bhakti?

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is it coincidental that I feel good, really good when I am practicing bhakti and does this good feeling increase with time is it ok to savor and soak up these feelings yes, definitely we feel good because while practicing bhakti because we are getting connected with the supremely good being, that is Krishna he is all auspicious and the more we come closer to him, we feel better at the same time at our stage sometimes devotees ask this question we say that spiritual happiness is eternal but then we say for us even spiritual happiness is temporal I come to the temple sometimes I dance in kirtan I feel happy, sometimes I don’t feel happy sometimes I do japa, I feel happy sometimes I don’t feel happy so is spiritual happiness actually eternal or is spiritual happiness also temporal so the point is the soul is here the soul is somebody like a person on the earth Krishna is like the sun and in between there are clouds the clouds are our conditioners last anger, greed, the various anarthas that are there now sometimes when the clouds don’t come in the way the sun’s light is seen by the person on the ground sometimes when the clouds come in the way the sun’s light cannot be seen so like that although Krishna is always the source of happiness we are sometimes able to have a connection with Krishna when we experience spiritual happiness and sometimes we don’t have a connection with Krishna or rather our conditionings obstruct our connection with Krishna and that’s why we don’t experience happiness but if we do experience happiness that is a matter of great fortune and yes those feelings will definitely intensify because as we become purified the things that disconnect us from Krishna will decrease and the means by which we connect with Krishna will increase, our connections with Krishna will increase because we become more and more attracted towards it so in that way we will be able to advance and experience more and more happiness anandam buddhi vardhanam pratipadam poornamata svadhanam so then Bhagwan said that there is an ocean of happiness and that keeps increasing as we advance in bhakti so it’s definitely not coincidental it is actually transcendental that we experience happiness when we practice bhakti but we shouldn’t make our practice of bhakti dependent only on the feelings of happiness because sometimes they may or may not come use our intelligence and keep perceiving and then those feelings will come regularly