Verse 1.4.99

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 1.4.99:

आस्तां वानन्य-भावानां दासानां परमा गतिः ।
प्रभोर् विचित्रा लीलैव प्रेम-भक्ति-विवर्धिनी ॥ ९९ ॥

āstāṃ vānanya-bhāvānāṃ dāsānāṃ paramā gatiḥ |
prabhor vicitrā līlaiva prema-bhakti-vivardhinī || 99 ||

It is necessary for us to go to the house of the Pāṇḍavas. There is no need to discuss this matter further. Especially since such pastimes of Bhagavān are the ultimate shelter of servants who worship Bhagavān with one-pointed attention. They enhance their prema-bhakti.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

(By Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī himself including a deep purport of that commentary)

Would you not say it is the responsibility of one-pointed devotees to have darśana of their most worshipable Bhagavān? To remove this doubt alone, though accepting this thought, he explains the reason for his not going in these six ślokas beginning with āstām (let it be so). It is my duty to visit the house of the Pāṇḍavas, what more can be said about this matter? Especially, onepointed servants who have no other sentiment or desire than to have the darśana of Bhagavān and experience His variegated pastimes, for these variegated pastimes of Bhagavān are the topmost shelter. Here the import of gati means a shelter in all types of calamities. It is not that these pastimes are only the topmost shelter (parama gati). However, these pastimes increase the loving devotion (prema-bhakti) of His servants, namely, such pastimes enhance their devotional service.