The Conceptual Sequence of Brahma

Bharatayana: How can we believe that all things were produced by Brahma, given that Brahma is transcendent above those things? It seems impossible that a cause could give rise to things that are utterly unlike it. But why the objective persists would Brahma even bother to produce the world? For no real reason suggests Bharatayana, it is out of mere sport or play that Brahma does so. Wouldn't Brahma have had good reason not to cause the world as we see it? After all, it is full of suffering and unjust inequality. All suffering is a punishment for wicked deeds, which may have been committed in past lives.