Ādi-filā, Chapter 5
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PURPORT
This is a verse from Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī's diary. It appears as the eighth of the first fourteen verses of  Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta .
TEXT 14
अकृत्तिर पार ‘परवेगम’-नामे धाम । कृष्णविग्रह येद्दे विद्युत्ताप्ति-भगवान् ॥ ১৪ ॥
prakṛtira pāra 'paravyoma'-nāme dhāma kṛṣṇa-vigraha yaiche vibhūty-ādi-guṇavān
SYNONYMS
prakṛtira —the material nature;  pāra —beyond;  para-vyoma —the spiritual sky;  nāme —in name;  dhāma —the place;  kṛṣṇa-vigraha —the form of Lord Kṛṣṇa;  yaiche —just as;  vibhūti-ādi —like the six opulences;  guṇa-vān —full with transcendental attributes.
TRANSLATION
Beyond the material nature lies the realm known as  paravyoma , the spiritual sky. Like Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself, it possesses all transcendental attributes, such as the six opulences.
PURPORT
According to Sāṅkhya philosophy, the material cosmos is composed of twenty-four elements: the five gross material elements, the three subtle material elements, the five knowledge-acquiring senses, the five active senses, the five objects of sense pleasure, and the  mahat-tattva  (the total material energy). Empiric philosophers, unable to go beyond these elements, speculate that anything beyond them must be  avyakta , or inexplicable. But the world beyond the twenty-four elements is not inexplicable, for it is explained in  Bhagavad-gītā  as the eternal ( sanātana ) nature. Beyond the manifested and unmanifested existence of material nature ( vyaktāvyakta ) is the  sanātana  nature, which is called the  paravyoma , or the spiritual sky. Since that nature is spiritual in quality, there are no qualitative differences there; everything there is spiritual, everything is good, and everything possesses the spiritual form of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself. That spiritual sky is the manifested internal potency of Śrī Kṛṣṇa; it is distinct from the material sky manifested by His external potency.
The all-pervading Brahman, the impersonal glowing ray of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, exists in the spiritual world with the Vaikuṇṭha planets. We can get some idea of that spiritual sky by a comparison to the material sky, for the rays of the sun in the material sky can be compared to the  brahmajyoti , the glowing ray of the Personality of Godhead. In the  brahmajyoti  there are unlimited Vaikuṇṭha planets, which are spiritual and therefore self-luminous, with a glow many times greater than that of the sun. The Personality of Godhead Śrī Kṛṣṇa, His innumerable plenary portions and the portions of His plenary portions dominate each Vaikuṇṭha planet. In the highest region of