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antarhitendriyārthāya
haraye vihitāñjaliḥ
sarva-bhūtamayo viśvaṁ
sasarjedaṁ sa pūrvavat
antarhita—ante la desaparición; indriya-arthāya—a la Personalidad de Dios, el objetivo de todos los sentidos; haraye—al Señor; vihita-añjaliḥ—con las manos juntas; sarva-bhūta—todas las entidades vivientes; mayaḥ—lleno de; viśvam—el universo; sasarja—creó; idam—esto; saḥ—él (Brahmā); pūrva-vat—exactamente como antes.
Ante la desaparición de la Suprema Personalidad de Dios, Hari, quien, para los sentidos de los devotos, es el objeto del disfrute trascendental, Brahmā, con las manos juntas, comenzó a crear de nuevo el universo, lleno de entidades vivientes, tal como se encontraba antes.
SIGNIFICADO: La Suprema Personalidad de Dios, Hari, es el objeto con el que se complacen los sentidos de todas las entidades vivientes. Las entidades vivientes, engañadas por el reflejo deslumbrante de la energía externa, adoran los sentidos en vez de ocuparlos debidamente en la complacencia de los deseos del Supremo.
En el Hari-bhakti-sudhodaya (13.2) se encuentra el siguiente verso:
akṣṇoḥ phalaṁ tvādṛśa-darśanaṁ hi
tanoḥ phalaṁ tvādṛśa-gātra-saṅgaḥ
jihvā-phalaṁ tvādṛśa-kīrtanaṁ hi
sudurlabhā bhāgavatā hi loke
«¡Oh, devoto del Señor!, el propósito del sentido de la vista se cumple con solo verte, y tocarte el cuerpo constituye la satisfacción del tacto corporal. La lengua es para glorificar tus cualidades, debido a que en este mundo un devoto puro del Señor es muy difícil de encontrar».
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 reengage them in the direct service of the Lord. Lord Brahmā thus engaged his senses in the Lord by re-creating the conditioned living entities to act in the re-created universe. This material universe is thus created and annihilated by the will of the Lord. It is created to give the conditioned soul a chance 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 engaging the senses in service of the Lord. Instead of doing so, i.e., converting the actions of the senses, the impersonalists began to make the conditioned souls sense-less, and the Lord also sense-less. That is improper treatment for the conditioned souls. The diseased condition of the senses may be treated by curing the defect, but not uprooting the senses altogether. When there is some disease in the eyes, the eyes may be cured to see properly. Plucking out the eyes is no treatment. Similarly, the whole material disease is based on the process of sense gratification, and liberation from the diseased condition is reengagement of the senses to see the beauty of the Lord, hear His glories, and act on His account. Thus Brahmājī created the universal activities again.