Some think that the purna brahma becoming a son in Vraja is not real, not absolute and that those devotees are in illusion. In reply to this Brahma recites this verse. "Though you are always beyond the material influence, you always are situated within the material world, and take up forms and relationships similar to material forms and relationships of sons, but your form and relationships are not false like those of material fathers and sons. Those forms and relationships, being transcendental, are real and eternal. Though your pastimes are eternal and beyond material influence, they appear similar to material activities. Why do you need to imitate material activities? --In order to increase even further the bliss that the devotees have tasted from some of your pastimes. As a lamp appears bright in the darkness, but is insignificant in the sunlight, or a diamond does not glitter on a white background but appears brilliant against a dark background, the pastimes do not appear so astonishing in Vaikuntha as they do when performed in the material world. Though Vraja is spiritual, just as Krsna appears like a mortal person, so Vraja also appears like part of the material world. In this place the pastimes appear most wonderful."

What is the purpose of your pastimes? They are to spread intense bliss to the surrendered people—those in Vraja and myself, by sweet pastimes rather than pastimes displaying power. nandaḥ kim akarod brahman śreya evaṁ mahodayam yaśodā ca mahā-bhāgā papau yasyāḥ stanaṁ hariḥ What pious acts did Nanda perform to cause such affection and what pious acts did most fortunate Yaśodā perform so that the Lord drank from her breast? SB 10.8.46 pitarau nānvavindetāṁ kṛṣṇodārārbhakehitam gāyanty adyāpi kavayo yal loka-śamalāpaham Great devotees sing of the activities of Kṛṣṇa in his childhood which Vasudeva and Devakī could not experience and which even today destroy the sins of all people. SB 10.8.47 yena yenāvatāreṇa bhagavān harir īśvaraḥ karoti karṇa-ramyāṇi mano-jñāni ca naḥ prabho yac-chṛṇvato ’paity aratir vitṛṣṇā sattvaṁ ca śuddhyaty acireṇa puṁsaḥ bhaktir harau tat-puruṣe ca sakhyaṁ tad eva hāraṁ vada manyase cet O Lord! Hearing about the Lord, full of all qualities, destroyer, of suffering, attractor of the senses, who through his appearance causes pleasure to the ears and great attraction to the mind, destroys all disinterest in the topics and all thirst for material enjoyment, and produces prema for the attractive Lord and friendship with the devotees. Please speak of the Lord’s pastimes if you think I am qualified. SB 10.7.1-2 The pastimes of Kṛṣṇa with the people of Vraja are eternal. This is indicated in the verse 32 where the friendship of the Lord is unspecified in time and followed by the words “greatest bliss,” “complete” and “eternal.” Verse 33 again indicates that the pastimes are eternal. In giving up Vaikuṇṭha and praying for a birth to attain the foot dust of the people of Vraja and describing the Lord who is the life of the people of Vraja, sought by the Vedas, again the eternal nature of the pastimes is seen. Not able to repay his debts, the Lord then appears in the world as a son over unlimited kalpas of time. Though there are many people filled with attachment and illusion, this is no obstacle to the pastimes. Brahmā takes as his personal goal in life attainment of the form of Kṛṣṇa a cowherd described in verse 1, related to the people of Vraja and to the devotees outside. Brahmā fears that some people with material vision think that the pastimes are material. What can be said? This verse answers. Though you are untouched by matter in your pastimes and constantly engage in pastimes with your devotees, and appear in the material world with your devotees, you imitate the material world by being born like a human but show the great glory by that act. “What is the purpose of doing that?” It gives joy to the devotees. Both the people of this world who are not eternal and the surrendered devotees who are eternal derive bliss by seeing and hearing about the eternal pastimes which manifest on earth. An ocean of bliss spreads because of the pastimes which appear on earth.

Though you are beyond the material world, you imitate the world—by being a son etc. Why? You do this in order to give bliss to your devotees by hearing about your pastimes related to Vraja. Or do you really perform pastimes as a son with the devotees? You who cause others to exit the material world (nisprapañcaḥ) become fixed (vilambayasi) in spreading bliss by pastimes with the peopḷe of Vraja (praptanna-janatā).