166 Sti Caitanya-caritamrta [Madhya-lila, Ch. 5

PURPORT

Like these two brahmanas of Vidyanagara, 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 brahmanas 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, Krsna accepted the two brahmanas as
His eternal servants. Both brahmanas 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 brahmana belonged to an aristocratic family and
was learned and wealthy. The young brahmana 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. Srila Narottama dasa Thakura confirms this statement:

gaurdrigera sangi-gane, _nitya-siddha kari’ mane,
se yaya vrajendra-suta pasa

$ri-gauda-mandala-bhdmi, — yeba jane cintamani
tara haya vraja-bhame vasa

One who accepts the associates of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu 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 Gauda-mandala-bhGmi—those places
in Bengal where Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu stayed—are equal to Vrajabhami, or
Vrndavana. There is no difference between the inhabitants of Vrndavana and
those of Gauda-mandala-bhami, or Sridhama Mayapura.

TEXT 114

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