Verse 2.4.194

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 2.4.194:

वैकुण्ठ-वासिनो ह्य् एते केचिद् वै नित्य-पार्षदाः ।
परे कृष्णस्य कृपया साधयित्वेमम् आगताः ॥ १९४ ॥

vaikuṇṭha-vāsino hy ete kecid vai nitya-pārṣadāḥ |
pare kṛṣṇasya kṛpayā sādhayitvemam āgatāḥ || 194 ||

vaikuṇṭha-vāsinaḥ–the residents of Vaikuṇṭha; hi–indeed; ete–they; kecit–some; vai–certainly; nitya-pārṣadāḥ–eternal associates; pare–others; kṛṣṇasya–of Śrī Kṛṣṇa; kṛpayā–by the mercy; sādhayitvā–having executed the limbs of bhakti; imam–this; āgatāḥ–have arrived.

O Gopa-kumāra, some of the Vaikuṇṭha residents are Bhagavān’s eternal associates, and some have arrived here by the mercy of Śrī Kṛṣṇa through the practice of sādhana.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

(By Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī himself including a deep purport of that commentary)

Śrī Gopa-kumāra might question, “As Bhagavān’s servants in Vaikuṇṭha and Śrī Bhagavān Himself are all embodiments of sac-cid-ānanda, there is no difference between them. Then how is Bhagavān the worshipable object of service (sevya) and how are the Vaikuṇṭha residents His servants (sevaka)?”

In reply to this, Śrī Nārada speaks six verses, beginning here with vaikuṇṭha. He says, “Among Bhagavān’s Vaikuṇṭha servants, some are eternal associates like Śrī Śeṣa and Śrī Garuḍa. However, Jaya, Vijaya, Bharata, Priyavrata, and others have arrived in Vaikuṇṭha after successfully performing their devotional practices, or sādhana.

Therefore, they are known as the recent associates of Bhagavān.”