The ultimate goal of all the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas’ sādhanā is to attain the confidential nikuñja-sevā of Śrī-Śrī Rādhā-Mādhava.
Although the ācāryas are eternal maidservants in the Vraja-nikuñjas, they have descended along with Śrīman Mahāprabhu to teach the world how to perform rāga-bhajana.

By giving a perfect example they have made the practising devotees in this world greedy after the nikuñja-rasa and are thus taking them along to the transcendental groves of Vraja.
Without this, the advent of Śrīman Mahāprabhu could not have reached perfection, because the mañjarī-service of Śrī Rādhā is Śrīman Mahāprabhu’s ultimate and unprecedented merciful gift.

Through the ācāryas, headed by Śrī Rūpa and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, the Lord had this message preached. Although they are eternal associates of the Lord in Vraja, āpane nā koile dharma śikhāno nā yāya (C.C.) – “If they had not practised it, it could not be preached.” Following this principle, the Gosvāmīs also desire this service in the kuñjas, as if they are ordinary neophytes.

Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa prays that he may be serving in the Vraja-nikuñja in allegiance to Śrī Rūpa. Without this allegiance Vraja-worship cannot reach perfection. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī writes in Bhakti Rasāmṛta Sindhu (1.2.295):

sevā sādhaka rūpeṇa siddha-rūpeṇa cātra hi
tad bhāva lipsunā kārya vraja lokānusārataḥ

“A practising devotee who desires the feelings of the Vraja-people serves in allegiance to them, both in the present physical body as well as in the (mentally conceived) spiritual body.” 

Śrī Viśvanātha Cakravartī comments:

sādhaka rūpeṇa kāyikyādi sevā tu śrī rūpa sanātanādi vrajavāsi-janānām anusārena tathā ca siddha-rūpeṇa mānasī-sevā śrī rādhā lalitā viśākhā śrī rūpa mañjaryādīnām anusārena kartavyety arthaḥ

“In his physical body a worshiper of the Vraja-mood follows in the footsteps of Vraja-people like Śrī Rūpa and Sanātana Gosvāmī and in his spiritual body he renders mental service in allegiance to Śrī Rādhā, Lalitā, Viśākhā and Śrī Rūpa Mañjarī”.

nijābhīṣṭa kṛṣṇa preṣṭha pāche to lāgiyā nirantara sevā kore antarmanā hoiyā  (C.C.)

“Following one’s favorite beloved devotee of Kṛṣṇa one constantly serves Him within the mind.”

For Śrī Raghunātha dāsa that favorite devotee is Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī in the physical, outer world, and Śrīmatī Rūpa Mañjarī in the spiritual, inner world.

In this way Śrīpāda, who desires Yugala-sevā in allegiance to Śrī Rūpa, teaches all the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava-aspirants also to worship in allegiance to Śrī Rūpa (Gosvāmī and/or Mañjarī).

Radhakund Mahanta Pandit Ji Sri Srimat Ananta das Babaji