Today's reading is based on Savitri Book 7 Canto 5, where Savitri arrives at the doorsteps of the heart’s mystic cave where the soul is hidden surrounded by a wall of mystic fire.
This is what’s remarkable: that when one is perfectly surrendered to the Divine one is perfectly free, and this is the absolute condition for freedom, to belong to the Divine alone.
Speaking of Lord's ability to avoid the complexities of progressive manifestation in creating His worlds - yes He can and indeed He does. All the typal planes of gods etc are created directly by Him.
Social groupings can be centred around the vital physical, largely surface life of man. This life caters primarily to the bodily existence and vital pleasures and comforts.
Man is not born for the society — but the society is created for him. Those who forget the inner Divinity in man and give a higher place to the society are worshipping the undivine.