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The Hamsa-guhya Prayers
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pleased with you because you are endeavoring to fulfill My desire for the welfare of the entire world.
PURPORT
After every dissolution of the material cosmos, all the living entities take shelter in the body of Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, and when creation takes place again, they come forth from His body in their various species to resume their activities. Why does the creation take place in such a way that the living entities are put into conditioned life to suffer the threefold miseries imposed upon them by the material nature? Here the Lord says to Dakṣa, “You desire to benefit all living entities, and that is also My desire.” The living entities who come in contact with the material world are meant to be corrected. All the living entities within this material world have revolted against the service of the Lord, and therefore they remain within this material world as ever-conditioned,  nitya-baddha , taking birth again and again. There is a chance, of course, of their being liberated, but nevertheless the conditioned souls, not taking advantage of this opportunity, continue in a life of sense enjoyment, and thus they are punished by birth and death again and again. This is the law of nature. As the Lord says in  Bhagavad-gītā  (7.14):
daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī 
    mama māyā duratyayā 
    mām eva ye prapadyante 
    māyām etāṁ taranti te
“This divine energy of Mine, consisting of the three modes of material nature, is difficult to overcome. But those who have surrendered unto Me can easily cross beyond it.” Elsewhere in  Bhagavad-gītā  (15.7) the Lord says:
mamaivāṁśo jīva-loke 
    jīva-bhūtaḥ sanātanaḥ 
    manaḥ ṣaṣṭhānīndriyāṇi 
    prakṛti-sthāni karṣati
“The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal, fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six