वासुदेवस्वरूपनिरूपणं—सर्गक्रमश्च
Vāsudeva’s Nature and the Ordered Process of Creation
प्रधानपुरुषव्यक्तकालानां परमं हि यत् पश्यन्ति सूरयः शुद्धं तद् विष्णोः परमं पदम्
pradhānapuruṣavyaktakālānāṃ paramaṃ hi yat paśyanti sūrayaḥ śuddhaṃ tad viṣṇoḥ paramaṃ padam
प्रधानपुरुषव्यक्तकालानाम् अपि परं यत् शुद्धं सूरयः पश्यन्ति, तदेव विष्णोः परमं पदम्।
Sage Parāśara (teaching Maitreya in the Vishnu Purana’s opening cosmological discourse)
In this verse it denotes the supreme, pure state/abode of Vishnu—ultimate reality—beyond matter (pradhāna), individual spirit (puruṣa), the unmanifest (avyakta), and even time (kāla).
Parāśara frames the highest truth as something the seers directly apprehend: a purity that transcends the usual cosmological principles (matter, spirit, unmanifest nature, and time), identifying that transcendence with Vishnu.
Vishnu is presented as the final ground of all cosmological principles—so creation and dissolution occur within His supremacy, supporting a Vaishnava view of Vishnu as Para Brahman.