Is Satyabhama Devi a nitya siddha or sadhana siddha?

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> > Satyabhama is certainly a nitya siddha.She is Radharanis expansion in

> Dvaraka,

> > as described in books like Lalita Madhava by Srila Rupa Goswami. And

> > Rukminidevi is the expansion of Candravali

 

> Since She is an expansion of another Sri-tattva,

> She is accepted as a Sri-tattva Herself. My impression of Lalita Madhava

> is that all 8 gopis and Their expansions as 8 Queens are all Sri-tattva.

> Please correct me if I am wrong. Madhva also accepts Satyabhama as

> Laksmi-tattva.

 

Srimati Radharani is the original laksmi (sri tattva) just like Krsna is the

original Visnu. So all the gopies are the personal bodily expansions of

Srimati Radharani and the queens in Dvarka are the expansions of these

expansions.

 

But none of this dosen't answer my question:

 

The below story says that the Lord himself told Satyabhama how she achieved

this position which makes her look like sadhana siddha.

 

> There is a story from Padma Purana about Devasharma and Candrasharma.

> There was a bramana named Devasharma, who had one daughter named Gunavati

> and one disciple called Candrasharma. He married his daughter to

> Candrasharma and lived together with him in Haridwar, which is considered

> as Visnu-ksetra. One day they went to the forest to collect some wood for

> the sacrifice when one demon came and killed both of them. They went to

> Vaikuntha and because they were both worshipers of the sun god, later on

> Devasharma became Satrajit and Candrasharma became Akrura. Satrajit had

> the Syamantaka-mani from the sun god whom he worshiped in his last life,

> and Akrura was his friend because of that, and he also had the Syamantaka

> jewel for some time. After that Gunavati worshiped Lord Visnu for the rest

> of her life.

>

> When she was very old one day she went to take a bath, fell down in the

> river and died. At that time she was carried to Vaikuntha because she had

> performed Ekadasi vrata her whole life, worshiped Lord Visnu and Tulasi

> Devi. Therefore she got the chance of becoming Satyabhama, the daughter of

> Satrajit who was her father in the previous life.

>

> Satyabhama asked Krsna, 'How did I get the chance to become Your wife?

> What did I do in my past life?' So Lord Krsna was narrating this story.

> They were very religious all their life and they died in Haridwar so they

> went to Lord Hari's planet - not because of their worship of Surya.

 

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Nayana-ranjana dasa