The leaders of the eternally perfect mañjarīs, Śrī Rūpa Mañjarī and Labaṅga Mañjarī, who are Rūpa and Sanātana in Śrī Gaura’s pastimes, are called yugala ujjvalamaya tanu by Srila Narottama das Thakur, the embodiments of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa’s brilliant amorous love.

The question may now be raised— ‘Why would those who are Vraja’s eternally perfect mañjarīs, now humbly and eagerly perform such sādhana as if they are ordinary practitioners?”

Srila Thakur Mahasaya explains this by saying: yāhāra prasāde loka, pāsarilo sab śoka, prakaṭa kalapa taru janu—”By their grace a wishyielding tree was manifest to remove all the distress of the people”

Actually Vraja’s nitya siddha Śrī Rūpa Mañjarī and Labaṅga Mañjarī have descended with Śrī Gaurāṅga, Who is Himself the joint form of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa, to personally practise His beloved worship in the sweet loving mood of Vraja, and to preach it to the world as well, by writing a huge storehouse of sacred books on the subject. By their grace the people of the world attained the example of how to practise this Vraja-devotion, and through their books they attained knowledge on the principles of sambandha (the soul’s relationship with God), abhidheya (the means to attain God) and prayojana (the ultimate goal of life, love of God), so that they can forever be saved from the grip of the threefold mundane miseries, the repetition of birth and death and the pangs of lamentation.

However, the destruction of suffering and lamentation are only concomitant results of their preaching; actually the people of the world have been blessed with the attainment of the loving service of the lotus feet of their most beloved Śrī-Śrī Rādhā-Mādhava, and to reveal this the blessed author said: prakaṭa kalapa taru janu, meaning that Śrīla Rūpa and Sanātana are like wish-yielding trees, descending to bestow the fruits of prema in the form of Radha dasyam that is part of Vraja’s conjugal mellows.

In this world it is very rare to find a wish-yielding tree, but Śrī Rūpa-Sanātana are prakaṭa kalapa taru, or manifest wish-yielding trees, which means that they revealed themselves to all people of the world and blessed everyone who lived in their time, and blessed everyone else for the eternal future by promulgating the path of prema through their hand-written books, that are filled with syllables of love.

(Radhakund Mahanta Sri Srimat Ananta das Babaji)