Verse 2.3.126

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 2.3.126:

महत्तमतया श्रूयमाना अपि परेऽखिलाः ।
फल-व्रत-विचारेण तुच्छा महद्-अनादृताः ॥ १२६ ॥

mahattamatayā śrūyamānā api pare'khilāḥ |
phala-vrata-vicāreṇa tucchā mahad-anādṛtāḥ || 126 ||

mahat-tamatayā–because of the supreme greatness; śrūyamāṇāḥ–hearing; api–although; pare–other; akhilāḥ–all; phala–benefits; vrāta–of vows; avicāreṇa–without consideration; tucchāḥ–insignificant; mahat–by the great souls; anādṛtāḥ–disregarded.

Without consideration, rasika devotees, who are expert in discriminating between what is of substance and what is worthless, regard as insignificant the entire corpus of great rewards that are described, except for the abode of Vaikuṇṭha.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

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

Śrī Gopa-kumāra might raise the doubt, “Don’t we also hear about other excellent rewards?” In reply, the Vaikuṇṭha pārṣadas speak this verse beginning with mahat. They say, “Other than the abode of Vaikuṇṭha, whatever is claimed as a great goal is truly insignificant. The connoisseurs of devotion to the Lord, those who are bhakti-rasika, who know the difference between the real and the unreal (sāra-asāra), have determined that all those goals (sādhyas) and means to attain them (sādhanas) are insignificant.”