Somebody answered one my question's on Kali Demon and said the following:-
Another son of Lord Brahmā was Irreligion, whose wife’s name was Falsity.
But why would Lord Brahma create a son called as Irreligion?
Why would any God create something bad anyways?
If dharma is what God wants us to follow, if for the sake of establishing dharma that the Lord has to take birth here again and again (BG - 4.7), then what ignorance caused Brahma, the reservoir of all knowledge, to have a son like adharma? Wouldn't the world have been a better place if God Brahma didn't create this Son? Yes, it would have been. So what's the reason? Why would God create anything bad at all?
Well the thing is, stories of the scriptures are not to be always taken literally. Many of them are symbolic in nature and have esoteric meanings. For example, Kali has the wife named Durukti (harsh speech). It means harsh speech is the companion of the age of Kali just like a wife is a companion of a husband. So in Kali Yuga people won't won't be humble, instead they will say harsh words to others and will cause quarrels. Similarly, the mixing of kali (quarrel) and durukti (harsh speech) gives rise to death, fear, etc. which are described as their sons. In the very same way, adharma has been stated as the son of Brahma.
In reality, no God would create anything bad so that He will have to work for restoring the good again. No one is that fool. The manifestation of good and bad is natural and spontaneous because God is both sat and asat Himself:
sadasaccāhamarjuna [BG - 9.19]
- Arjuna, I am both sat (good) and asat (bad).
So in the beginning when creation occurs, God Himself enters the creation as good and bad and manifests as different material nature:
sa evedaḿ sasarjāgre bhagavān ātma-māyayā
sad-asad-rūpayā cāsau guṇamayāguṇo vibhuḥ [SB - 1.2.30]Meaning
He at the beginning of creation through His own illusive power transformed into both good and evil. Although He is attributes less, He became endowed with attributes and qualities.
Then people as per their actions good or bad give rise to corresponding situations. Sages and saints describe it in many ways through stories and different philosophies. When one advances in spiritual practice through devotion, inquiry, etc. he will be able to know and realize the truth. The truth that, all is this merely a lila (sport / pastime) of God:
lokavat tu lila kaivalyam [Brh. Su. - 2.1.33]
- The creation is merely a sport of Brahman.
I was also troubled by similar kinds of question, but it went away upon my realization of Shunya Vada by following the path of devotion.
Your question is based on wrong assumption that Brahma created this world for our enjoyment, and there is nothing else than this world.
Bhagavata Purana, on the other hand, says that Brahma is being born in the specific universe and starts creating things after being instructed by Vishnu what exactly to create.
Bhagavata-purana 2.5.11 says:
yena sva-rociṣā viśvaṁ
rocitaṁ rocayāmy aham
yathārko ’gnir yathā somo
yatharkṣa-graha-tārakāḥ
I create after the Lord’s creation by His personal effulgence [known as the brahmajyoti], just as when the sun manifests its fire, the moon, the firmament, the influential planets and the twinkling stars also manifest their brightness.
You can read in the whole chapter 3.6 of Bhagavata Purana about what "Lord's creation" Brahma speaks here. After that, there's whole chapter 3.8 about birth of Brahma and after that you may as well continue reading onwards. ;)
sarva-veda-mayenedam
ātmanātmātma-yoninā
prajāḥ sṛja yathā-pūrvaṁ
yāś ca mayy anuśerate
By following My instructions you can now generate the living entities as before, by dint of your complete Vedic wisdom and the body you have directly received from Me, the supreme cause of everything.
So, Brahma doesn't do anything out of his own wishes - he's just a tool in hands of Ishvara.
Chapter 15 of Bhagavad-gita clearly states that there's something else than this (material) world. Krishna speaks rather succintly, because, after all, he and Arjuna are in the middle of the battlefield between two armies ready to fight, but he mentions immaterial world anyway, because it's extremely important.
Said that, let's talk about justice.
Your question is "why would any God create anything bad anyways". But shastra says that God is above everything related to this material creation.
More than that, Krishna himself says that no one that ourselves are the reason of sufferings:
kārya-kāraṇa-kartṛtve
hetuḥ prakṛtir ucyate
puruṣaḥ sukha-duḥkhānāṁ
bhoktṛtve hetur ucyate
Nature is said to be the cause of all material causes and effects, whereas the living entity is the cause of the various sufferings and enjoyments in this world.
Especially important is the verse 15.8:
śarīraṁ yad avāpnoti
yac cāpy utkrāmatīśvaraḥ
gṛhītvaitāni saṁyāti
vāyur gandhān ivāśayāt
The living entity in the material world carries his different conceptions of life from one body to another, as the air carries aromas. Thus he takes one kind of body and again quits it to take another.
All this is to satisfy various desires. We have various desires, and some of us find satisfaction in illicit deeds, one of which is Irreligion. But for it to happen, Irreligion should exist, right? Somebody has to create the concept of it first.
But God wants from us different things:
sarva-dharmān parityajya
mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja
ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo
mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ
Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear.
This world is not for our satisfaction. It's to teach us that without God we will not be able to get any satisfaction at all. Some can be taught by simple thinking about God. Some - by hearing about God. But some can be taught only by experiencing continuous suffering, which will lead this living entity to the most important milestone in life - disappointment and finally, regret.
So, according to shastra, that's the most reasonable reason Brahma created such "bad" thing as Irreligion. He had to create everything, so living being could experience everything and draw a right conclusion.
It probably is worth noting also about the true nature of "bad". Even if the question started with Irreligion, it ended with more general notion of "bad". I'll show some more shlokas with the assumption that "bad" is something which will ultimately bring us suffering in one form or another.
First of all, Bhagavad-gita 2.12 clearly states that we are not created, we simply exist since time immemorial, and Brahma is involved in our appearance here only by giving us the material bodies we are using and changing here.
na tv evāhaṁ jātu nāsaṁ
na tvaṁ neme janādhipāḥ
na caiva na bhaviṣyāmaḥ
sarve vayam ataḥ param
Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.
This part of chapter 2 explains clearly that we as living beings cannot really be born, get old, get sick or die. All this is material illusion.
Nobody "created us in this world". We are here on our own accord. We do not do here anything ourselves: everything here is prepared for us by almighty Ishvara so we would be able to satisfy ourselves, and while doing so we hurt each other due to our lust being transformed to greed and then to rage.
