Is it right to say that we have a right to happiness when we are sinful, having rejected Krishna?

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In one of your Gita dailies you mentioned that we have a right to happiness however we are insignificant souls who have rebelled against Krishna so can we say that we have a right to happiness or a right to anything at all isn’t it that we don’t deserve anything because of our rebellion Answer there is a subjective feeling of humility which a sadhaka should have at the same time there is a fact the fact is that we are parts of Krishna and Krishna loves us. The Srimad Bhagavatam uses the word Daibhag.
Daibhag means inheritance it says that if we live Krishna conscious then attaining eternal life will be our Daibhag will be our right as our rightful inheritance from the supreme lord so we shouldn’t unduly minimize our original spiritual glory we are parts of Krishna and it is a great honour it is a great glory that the supreme lord the all attractive person has made us as parts so actually speaking as parts we have a right to be happy now it is only when we do wrong things that we lose the right so now do we have a right to be happy now it’s like asking if a person has committed a crime and has been put in jail does the person have a right to be free well that person may not have that right right now in the sense the circumstances don’t allow that person to be free but as a citizen if the person is law abiding naturally every law abiding citizen has a right to be free so similarly all of us have a right to happiness and we have to seek the right way to find that happiness so right now the right way is to not seek it by materialistic means regulate our urge for happiness and be satisfied with whatever happiness we get in our spiritual life but if we mistakenly think that we have no right to happiness at all then the only thing that will happen by that is the spiritual life will become unappealing and we will eventually give up spiritual life because we will have and we always have a very strong inner urge for happiness and if we say that we don’t have a right to happiness and then if any philosophy says such a thing why should I practice such a philosophy what is the point in practicing such a philosophy so actually as parts of Krishna we do have a right to happiness we have lost that right presently because of our past misuse of free will but we can reclaim that right just as a sick person who has a stomach upset has also a right to eat good food but at that point the person can’t eat that good food because that will worsen the condition so at that time the person may not be able to eat good food but the person does have a right to eat good food and once the health is regained then naturally one can eat that so similarly unless we understand that happiness is our very nature in fact it is deeper than a right right is something which is external nature is something which is internal the atma is sat chit ananda so ananda is its very nature so to live according to our nature is our most fundamental right so therefore to understand that we have a right to happiness just as a sick person has a right to health and good food is important for us to have the positive impetus for pursuing spiritual life enthusiastically and following whatever rules and regulations are required so that we curtail ourselves from pursuing the wrong way for happiness and then seek the right way to happiness thank you