Hare Krsna,
Good parents always desire to produce good progeny. They want to provide a good upbringing to the children through proper education and values. They are pleased if the children are respectful and obedient to them. Just like Lord Brahma is pleased with Kardama Muni’s attitude of following his instructions, the parents are also pleased with good behavior of their children. Similarly, the Supreme Lord, being always so merciful to His separated expansions (the jivas), always desires good things for them. He is not happy seeing them struggling in this material world.
BG 15.7: 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.
Therefore, the Supreme Lord has a good plan for bringing the struggling living entities back to Him, back to His abode. He usually accomplishes this by enlightening them with transcendental knowledge. Either He advents Himself (like Lord Kapiladeva) or He sends His bonafide representatives and scriptures.
The Lord’s love for us is in sharp contrast to the parents in this material world. A parental phenomenon in the western world that really shocks me is the concept of ‘empty nest’. As children grow older and graduate to college, they leave their parental homes to start an independent life. For parents, this is akin to baby birds leaving their nest once they are able to fly on their own. Parents are on their own now with children no longer around. What really surprises me is that most parents are happy with this. They usually say that they are happy with this arrangement as now they can do their own things without the kids being no longer around. I am not at all familiar with this culture here. In India even to this day, both parents and children long to stay together as far as possible. Of course, circumstances lead children to move out for further studies and employment. I have not seen a single Indian parent (yet) who is happy to see their children being separated from them. Western culture doesn’t stop surprising me!
The reason I am sharing this is to put across the point that our most loving and merciful Lord is not happy with ‘empty nest’. He loves us so much that He always accompanies us as Supersoul no matter what body we accept – humans, animals, birds, insects, etc. He brings guru, sadhu and sastras come across our paths so that we are enlightened and turn to Him for guidance and nourishment. Therefore, in this chapter we see the same principles play out. First the Lord desired to create the material world so that the living entities who wanted to enjoy separately for Him are provided a place to fulfill their desires. Secondly, He desired to populate the universe with living entities. He gave this task to Lord Brahma who, in turn, engaged his numerous sons to create progeny. Kardama Muni is of many such sons. Once Kardama Muni and Devahuti produced nine daughters, Lord Brahma wanted Kardmana Muni to get them married to the nine chief sages for further procreation. Just like Lord Brahma is pleased with Kardama Muni for following his instructions, the Supreme Lord is also pleased with Lord Brahma for helping Him create the material universe and populate it. Lastly, the Lord desires to enlighten the population in spiritual topics. This mission is so important to the Lord that He Himself advents as Lord Kapiladeva to teach the sankhya philosophy.
“He will present the philosophy of Sāṅkhya in such a way that by studying His philosophy people will be able to uproot the deep-rooted desire for karma, fruitive activities. Everyone in this material world engages in achieving the fruits of his labor. A man tries to be happy by achieving the fruits of his own honest labor, but actually he becomes more and more entangled. One cannot get out of this entanglement unless he has perfect knowledge, or devotional service.” (SB 3.24.16 P)
The sweet Lord is a perfect Father to us. He is with us at every step to guide us and inspire us to develop the desire to return home, back to Godhead. Unfortunately, in this material world the parents do not work on delivering their children from material bondage. They think their responsibility to their children is fulfilled after they give good material education to the kids. Unfortunately, this approach further entangles the kids in this material world. Neither they themselves are interested in (or aware of) liberation from material entanglement nor they are able to liberate their children. Therefore, it is said that “One who cannot deliver his dependents from the path of repeated birth and death should never become a spiritual master, a father, a husband, a mother or a worshipable demigod.” (SB 5.5.18)
“The father, spiritual master or husband must be able to release the dependent from repeated birth and death. If he cannot do this, he plunges himself into the ocean of reproachment for his unlawful activities. Everyone should be very responsible and take charge of his dependents just as a spiritual master takes charge of his disciple or a father takes charge of his son. All these responsibilities cannot be discharged honestly unless one can save the dependent from repeated birth and death.” (SB 5.5.18 P)
As a well-wishing Father and Lord, the Supreme Lord is always interested in our welfare and wonderfully charts our journey back to Him if at all we turn to Him and accept His instructions. As Lord Kapiladeva, He will impart sublime instructions and teachings to His Mother Devahuti by following which we too can be delivered as Mother Devahuti was. This is the supreme loving nature of the Lord.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Krsna Katha 