Spiritual advancement requires servitude towards Krishna and mastery over our senses Dont these two call for opposite attitudes?

From: Ramanand
We are originally designed to serve the Supreme Lord Krishna which requires an attitude of servitude. At the same time we need to master our senses. These two actions calls for two opposite attitudes. How this can be explained? Does this mean dovetailing the senses in Krishna’s service automatically creates the mastery over senses?

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Shrimad Bhagavad Gita Ki Jai, Hare Krishna These two actions call for two opposite attitudes How can this be explained? Does this mean devotating the senses in Krishna’s service automatically creates the mastery over the senses? Answer Yes, our focus is not to master the senses our focus is to serve Krishna with our everything including our senses so mastering the senses is just a tool for us so that we can serve Krishna and when our goal is to serve Krishna then mastering the senses does not create within us the mood of the master because our focus is on being the servant on the other hand those impersonalists, those jnanis those transcendentalists who do not have the goal of serving God they may succeed in controlling their senses but in general that control of their senses is very likely to create pride because they have been able to achieve something which is difficult which very few people are able to achieve and which is remarkable so all these reasons can easily make them proud and besides, in their world view generally speaking their goal is to merge in the person absolute that in a sense they consider themselves to be God or they consider that they will become God so either way there is not much reason or room for humility in such a conception and that is why these people, they often become proud so for us as devotees we have to always remember that our primary focus is to serve Krishna and for the sake of serving Krishna we want control of senses we don’t strive for control of senses independent of service to Krishna we don’t make control of senses an independent goal so we want to decrease our eating, sleeping, mating, defending why? because then our time and our mental energy will be less spent on these activities and that conserved time and mental energy can be used to do greater and better service for Krishna so by ensuring that our primary focus remains the service of Krishna we will be able to master our senses without getting into the mood of a master so we want to serve Rishikesh the lord of the senses and he is not the lord of his own senses he is ultimately the lord of the senses of everyone and that is why even with our senses he deserves to be served not our own separate interest so by keeping in mind that our primary focus is service not sense control and sense control is a tool to devotional service we can achieve sense mastery