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The Characteristics of King Purañjana
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the compiler of  Vedānta , and I am the knower of the  Vedas . (Bg. 15.15)
Thus the Lord as Paramātmā is situated in everyone's heart, and He gives directions to the living entity to act in whatever way the living entity desires. In this life and in his previous lives the living entity does not know that the Lord is giving him a chance to fulfill all kinds of desires. No one can fulfill any desire without the sanction of the Lord. All the facilities given by the Lord are unknown to the conditioned soul.
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सोऽन्वेषमाणः शरणं बभ्राम पृथिवीं प्रभुः । नानुरूपं यदाविन्ददभूत्स विमना इव ॥११॥
so 'nveṣamāṇaḥ śaraṇam babhrāma pṛthivīm prabhuḥ nānurūpam yadāvindad abhūt sa vimanā iva
saḥ —that King Purañjana;  anveṣamāṇaḥ —searching after;  śaraṇam —shelter;  babhrāma —traveled over;  pṛthivīm —the whole planet earth;  prabhuḥ —to become an independent master;  na —never;  anurūpam —to his liking;  yadā —when;  avindat —he could find;  abhūt —became;  saḥ —he;  vimanāḥ —morose;  iva —like.
TRANSLATION
King Purañjana began to search for a suitable place to live, and thus he traveled all over the world. Even after a great deal of traveling, he could not find a place just to his liking. Finally he became morose and disappointed.
PURPORT
The travelings of Purañjana are similar to the travelings of the modern hippies. Generally hippies are sons of great fathers and great families. It is not that they are always poor. But some way or another they abandon the shelter of their rich fathers and travel all over the world. As stated in this verse, the living entity wants to become a  prabhu , or master. The word  prabhu  means master, but actually the living entity is not a master; he is the eternal servant of God. When the living entity abandons the shelter of God, Kṛṣṇa, and tries to become a  prabhu  independently, he travels all over the creation. There are 8,400,000 species of life and millions and millions and trillions of planets within the creation. The living entity