Adi-fila, Chapter 5 379
PURPORT
This is a verse from Sri Svaripa Damodara Gosvami’s diary. It appears as the
eighth of the first fourteen verses of Sr7 Caitan ya-caritamrta.
TEXT 14
eiefea ata tacarta’-aica att |
sariaas cece fagesft-estaiy i set
prakrtira para ‘paravyoma’-nadme dhama
krsna-vigraha yaiche vibhity-ddi-gunavan
SYNONYMS
prakrtira—the material nature; pdra—beyond; para-vyoma—the spiritual sky; ndme
—in name; dhdma—the place; Arsna-vigraha—the form of Lord Krsna; yaiche—just
as; vibhiti-adi—\ike the six opulences; guna-vdn—full with transcendental attributes.
TRANSLATION
Beyond the material nature lies the realm known as paravyoma, the spiritual sky.
Like Lord Krsna Himself, it possesses all transcendental attributes, such as the six
opulences.
PURPORT
According to Sankhya 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-gitd as the eternal (sandtana) nature.
Beyond the manifested and unmanifested existence of material nature (vyaktavyakta)
is the sandtana nature, which is called the paravyoma, or the spiritual sky. Since
that nature is spiritual in quality, there are no qualitative differences there; every-
thing there is spiritual, everything is good, and everything possesses the spiritual
form of Sri Krsna Himself. That spiritual sky is the manifested internal potency of
Sri Krsna; it is distinct from the material sky manifested by His external potency.
The all-pervading Brahman, the impersonal glowing ray of Sri Krsna, exists in the
spiritual world with the Vaikuntha 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 Vaikuntha planets, which are spiritual and
therefore self-luminous, with a glow many times greater than that of the sun. The
Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna, His innumerable plenary portions and the portions
of His plenary portions dominate each Vaikuntha planet. In the highest region of
