Text 39]
Answers by Citing the Lord's Version
537
in folded hands;  sarva-bhūta —all living entities;  mayaḥ —full of;  viśvam —the universe;  sasarja —created;  idam —this;  saḥ —he, Brahmājī;  pūrvavat —exactly like before.
TRANSLATION
On the disappearance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, who is the object of transcendental enjoyment for the senses of devotees, Brahmā, with folded hands, began to recreate the universe full with living entities, as it was previously.
PURPORT
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, is the object for fulfilling the senses of all living entities. Illusioned by the glaring reflection of the external energy, the living entities worship the senses instead of engaging them properly in fulfilling the desires of the Supreme.
In the  Hari-bhakti-sudhodaya  there is the following verse:
akṣinoḥ phalam tvādṛśaṁ darśanaṁ hi tanoḥ phalam tvādṛśa-gatra-saṅgaḥ jihvā-phalam tvādṛśa-kīrtanaṁ hi sudurlabha-bhāgavataṁ hi loke.
“O devotee of the Lord, the purpose of the visual sense is fulfilled simply by seeing you, and to touch your body is the fulfillment of this bodily touch. The tongue is meant for glorifying your qualifies because in this world it is very difficult to find a pure devotee of the Lord.”
Originally the senses of the living entity were awarded for this purpose, namely to engage them in the transcendental loving service of the Lord or that of His devotees, but the conditioned souls, illusioned by the material energy, became captivated by sense enjoyment. Therefore the whole process of God consciousness is meant to rectify the conditional activities of the senses and to re-engage them in the direct service of the Lord. Lord Brahmā thus engaged his senses in the Lord by recreating the conditioned living entities to act in the recreated universe. This material universe is thus created and annihilated by the will of the Lord. It is created to give a chance to the conditioned soul to act to return home, back to Godhead, and servants like Brahmājī, Nāradajī, Vyāsajī and their company become busy with the same purpose of the Lord: to reclaim the conditioned souls from the field of sense gratification and return them to the normal stage of