“In the material world the Lord is designated as virāṭ, hiranya-garbha and kāraṇa. But beyond these three designations, the Lord is ultimately in the fourth dimension.”

Virāṭ (the phenomenal manifestation of the Supreme Whole), hiranya-garbha (the numinous soul of everything), and kārana (the cause, or causal nature) are all but designations of the puruṣas, who are responsible for material creation. The transcendental position surpasses these designations and is therefore called the position of the fourth dimension. This is a quotation from Śrīdhara Śvāmī’s commentary on the Eleventh Canto, Fifteenth Chapter, verse 16, of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.