Text 58] Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead 241

adharma, in a struggle for existence to become like Krsna. Therefore out
of compassion Krsna creates this material world to give the living entity a
chance to understand his real position. Bhagavad-gita and similar Vedic
literatures are presented so that the living being may understand his
relationship with Krsna. Vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah (Bg. 15.15).
All these Vedic literatures are meant to enable the human being to
understand what he is, what his actual position is, and what his relation-
ship is with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is called brahma-
Jynasd. Every conditioned soul is struggling, but human life provides the
best chance for him to understand his position. Therefore this verse says,
anugrahas tan-nivrtteh, indicating that the false life of repeated birth
and death must be stopped and the conditioned soul should be educated.
This is the purpose of the creation.
The creation does not arise whimsically, as atheistic men think.

asatyam apratistham te
Jagad ahur anisvaram
aparaspara-sambhiitarn
kim anyat kima-haitukam

‘They say that this world is unreal, that there is no foundation and that
there is no God in control. It is produced of sex desire and has no cause
other than lust.” (Bg. 16.8) Atheistic rascals think that there is no God
and that the creation has taken place by chance, just as a man and woman
meet by chance and the woman becomes pregnant and gives birth to a
child. Actually, however, this is not the fact. The fact is that there is a
purpose for this creation: to give the conditioned soul a chance to return
to his original consciousness, Krsna consciousness, and then return
home, back to Godhead, and be completely happy in the spiritual world.
In the material world the conditioned soul is given a chance to satisfy his
senses, but at the same time he is informed by Vedic knowledge that this
material world is not his actual place for happiness. Janma-mrtyu-jara-
vyddhi-duhkha-dosdnudarsanam (Bg. 13.9). One must stop the repeti-
tion of birth and death. Every human being, therefore, should take
advantage of this creation by understanding Krsna and his relationship
with Krsna and in this way return home, back to Godhead.
