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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.5.21

భవాన్ భగవతో నిత్యం సమ్మత: సానుగస్య హ । యస్య జ్ఞానోపదేశాయ మాదిశద్భగవాన్ వ్రజన్ ॥ ౨౧ ॥
bhavān bhagavato nityaṁ
[bhavaan bhagavato nityam]
sammataḥ sānugasya ha
[sammatah saanugasya ha]
yasya jṣānopadeśāya
[yasya jshaanopadeshaaya]
mādiśad bhagavān vrajan
[maadishad bhagavaan vrajan]
bhavān — your good self bhagavataḥ — of the Personality of Godhead nityam — eternal sammataḥ — recognized sa-anugasya — one of the associates ha — have been yasya — of whom jṣāna — knowledge upadeśāya — for instructing mā — unto me ādiśat — so ordered bhagavān — the Personality of Godhead vrajan — while returning to His abode.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
bhavān bhagavato nityaṁ
bhavān
your good self
bhagavataḥ
of the Personality of Godhead
nityam
eternal
sammataḥ sānugasya ha
sammataḥ
recognized
sa-anugasya
one of the associates
ha
have been
yasya jṣānopadeśāya
yasya
of whom
jṣāna
knowledge
upadeśāya
for instructing
mādiśad bhagavān vrajan
mā
unto me
ādiśat
so ordered
bhagavān
the Personality of Godhead
vrajan
while returning to His abode.
Your good self is one of the eternal associates of the Supreme Personality of Godhead for whose sake the Lord, while going back to His abode, left instructions with me.

Yamarāja, the great controller of life after death, decides the living entities’ destinies in their next lives. He is surely among the most confidential representatives of the Lord. Such confidential posts are offered to great devotees of the Lord who are as good as His eternal associates in the spiritual sky. And because Vidura happened to be among them, the Lord, while returning to Vaikuṇṭha, left instructions for Vidura with Maitreya Muni. Generally the eternal associates of the Lord in the spiritual sky do not come to the material world. Sometimes they come, however, by the order of the Lord — not to hold any administrative post, but to associate with the Lord in person or to propagate the message of God in human society. Such empowered representatives are called śaktyāveśa-avatāras, or incarnations invested with transcendental power of attorney.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
You are recognized by the Lord eternally. When the Lord departed to Vaikuṇṭha, he instructed me to teach knowledge to you, his devotee. You are not only a devotee having a post as Yamarāja, but you are also an eternal associate of the Lord in another form. The Lord, going to Vaikuṇṭha (vrajan), ordered me (mā).
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