Verse 2.2.192

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 2.2.192:

परमातिशय-प्राप्त-महत्ता-बोधनाय हि ।
पर-कष्ठेति शब्द्येत तस्यानन्तस्य नावधिः ॥ १९२ ॥

paramātiśaya-prāpta-mahattā-bodhanāya hi |
para-kaṣṭheti śabdyeta tasyānantasya nāvadhiḥ || 192 ||

parama-atiśaya–supreme preeminence (of that joy); prāpta–attained; mahat-tā–the greatness; bodhanāya–in order to comprehend; hi–indeed; parā kāṣṭhā–ultimate limit, pinnacle; iti–thus; śabdyeta–it can be said; tasya–of that; anantasya–of the limitless; na avadhiḥ–without limitation.

This happiness reaches the ultimate limit of greatness and none can surpass it. To explain this with certainty, the phrase ‘the highest degree’ (parā-kāṣṭhā) has been used. This happiness is infinite and limitless.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

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

Saying, “Bounded happiness can never be boundless,” Śrī Gopa-kumāra could raise the doubt that the word parākāṣṭhā, meaning ‘extreme limit,’ which is used to describe that happiness, indicates that this happiness has a limit or boundary.

To refute this idea, the personified bhakti-śāstras speak this verse beginning with parama. They say, “That happiness is the highest; nothing exceeds its greatness.” In order to incontrovertibly convey the supreme magnificence of this happiness, the word parā-kāṣṭhā has been employed. In reality, though, this happiness is not bound by space or time; it is infinite and limitless.