Text 58] Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
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yan māyā-ceṣṭitaṁ puṁsaḥ sthity-utpatty-apyayāya hi anugrahas tan-nivṛtter ātma-lābhāya ceṣyate
yat —whatever;  māyā-ceṣṭitaṁ —the laws of material nature enacted by the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  puṁsaḥ —of the living entities;  sthiti —duration of life;  utpatti —birth;  apyayāya —annihilation;  hi —indeed;  anugrahaḥ —compassion;  tat-nivṛtteḥ —the creation and manifestation of cosmic energy to stop the repetition of birth and death;  ātma-lābhāya —thus going home, back to Godhead;  ca —indeed;  iṣyate —for this purpose the creation is there.
TRANSLATION
The Supreme Personality of Godhead acts through His material energy in the creation, maintenance and annihilation of this cosmic manifestation just to deliver the living entity by His compassion and stop the living entity's birth, death and duration of materialistic life. Thus He enables the living being to return home, back to Godhead.
PURPORT
Materialistic men sometimes ask why God has created the material world for the suffering of the living entities. The material creation is certainly meant for the suffering of the conditioned souls, who are part of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as confirmed by the Lord Himself in  Bhagavad-gītā  (15.7):
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 senses, which include the mind.” All the living entities are part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and are as good as the