Pañca Sakhī Madhye Cāra Nitya Siddha Rādhikāra

Of the five kinds of Śrī Rādhā's sakhī friends, the last four are eternally perfect and never performed sādhana. The first kind, called simply "sakhī", attained residence in the town of Vraja's king by the power of their sādhana.

These sakhīs are of two kinds: 1. they who are perfect and remain performing sādhana, and 2. they who are beyond sādhana. These sakhīs are called "siddha" (perfect). Attaining gopīs' bodies, they worship the divine couple with great love.

Many great sages and personified Upaniṣads did not attain gopī forms. Although they worshiped with great sādhana, they did not attain the final perfection of entering the wonderful world of Vraja.

Still, by intense devotional service many great sages and personified Vedas became gopīs. They grasped the feet of a nitya- sakhī, and by the power of that nitya-sakhī's mercy they
attained sālokya-mukti. Thus they attained direct service to Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa.

In this way many demigoddesses attained the world of the sakhīs, became sakhīs themselves, and directly served Lord Kṛṣṇa. Without the mercy of a gopī in Vraja no one can attain the youthful divine couple.