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The Characteristics of King Purañjana
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material nature. When thus attracted by the beauty of the material energy, one becomes very eager to enjoy. This is elaborately described in this instance of Purañjana's becoming attracted by the beautiful woman. In conditional life the living entity is attracted by a face, eyebrows, or eyes, a voice or anything. In short, everything becomes attractive. When a man or a woman is attracted by the opposite sex, it doesn't matter whether the opposite sex is beautiful or not. The lover sees everything beautiful in the face of the beloved and thus becomes attracted. This attraction causes the living entity to fall down in this material world. This is described in  Bhagavad-gītā :
icchā-dveṣa-samutthena dvandva-mohena bhārata sarva-bhūtāni saṁmohaṁ sarge yānti parantapa
“O scion of Bharata [Arjuna], O conquerer of the foe, all living entities are born into delusion, overcome by the dualities of desire and hate.” (Bg. 7.27)
This condition of life is called  avidyā . Opposed to this  avidyā  is real knowledge.  Śrī Īśopaniṣad  distinguishes between  vidyā  and  avidyā , knowledge and ignorance. By  avidyā  (ignorance) one becomes conditioned, and by  vidyā  (knowledge) one becomes liberated. Purañjana admits herein that he is attracted by  avidyā . Now he wishes to see the complete feature of  avidyā  and so requests the girl to raise her head so that he can see her face to face. He thus wishes to see the various features that make  avidyā  attractive.
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नारद उवाच
इत्थं पुरञ्जनं नारी याचमानमधीरवत् । अभ्यनन्दत तं वीरं इसन्ती वीर मोहिता ॥३२॥
nārada uvāca itthaṁ purañjanaṁ nārī yācamānam adhīravat abhyanandata taṁ vīraṁ hasantī vīra mohitā