tabe sei dui vipre kahila īśvara
"tumi-dui — janme-janme ÄmÄra kiá¹…kara

 tabe - thereafter; sei - those; dui - two; vipre - unto the brÄhmaṇas; kahila - spoke; Ä«Å›vara - the Lord; tumi-dui - both of you; janme-janme - birth after birth; ÄmÄra - My; kiá¹…kara - servants.


Text

After the marriage ceremony was performed, the Lord informed both brÄhmaṇas, “You two brÄhmaṇas are My eternal servants, birth after birth.â€

Purport

Like these two brÄhmaṇas of VidyÄnagara, there are many devotees who are eternal servants of the Lord. They are specifically known as nitya-siddha, eternally perfect. Although the nitya-siddhas appear in the material world and seem to be common members of the world, they never forget the Supreme Personality of Godhead in any condition. This is the symptom of a nitya-siddha.

There are two kinds of living entities — nitya-siddha and nitya-baddha. The nitya-siddha never forgets his relationship with the Supreme Personality, whereas the nitya-baddha is always conditioned, even before the creation. He always forgets his relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Here the Lord informs the two brÄhmaṇas that they are His servants birth after birth. The phrase birth after birth refers to the material world because in the spiritual world there is no birth, death, old age or disease. By the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the nitya-siddha remains within this material world like an ordinary man, but the only business of the nitya-siddha is to broadcast the glories of the Lord. This incident appears to be an ordinary story about a marriage transaction involving two ordinary people. However, Kṛṣṇa accepted the two brÄhmaṇas as His eternal servants. Both brÄhmaṇas took much trouble in these negotiations, just like mundane people, yet they were acting as eternal servants of the Lord. All nitya-siddhas within this material world may appear to toil like ordinary men, but they never forget their position as servants of the Lord.

Another point: The elderly brÄhmaṇa belonged to an aristocratic family and was learned and wealthy. The young brÄhmaṇa belonged to an ordinary family and was uneducated. But these mundane qualifications do not concern a nitya-siddha engaged in the service of the Lord. We have to accept the fact that the nitya-siddhas are completely distinct from the nitya-baddhas, who are ordinary human beings. ÅšrÄ«la Narottama dÄsa ṬhÄkura confirms this statement:

gaurÄá¹…gera saá¹…gi-gaṇe, nitya-siddha kari’ mÄne,
se yÄya vrajendra-suta pÄÅ›a
Å›rÄ«-gauá¸a-maṇá¸ala-bhÅ«mi, yebÄ jÄne cintÄmaṇi
tÄra haya vraja-bhÅ«me vÄsa

One who accepts the associates of Lord Caitanya MahÄprabhu as nitya-siddhas is certain to be elevated to the spiritual kingdom to become an associate of the Supreme Lord. One should also know that Gauá¸a-maṇá¸ala-bhÅ«mi — those places in Bengal where ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu stayed — are equal to VrajabhÅ«mi, or Vá¹›ndÄvana. There is no difference between the inhabitants of Vá¹›ndÄvana and those of Gauá¸a-maṇá¸ala-bhÅ«mi, or ÅšrÄ«dhÄma MÄyÄpur.