This is an allegoric tale from the Srimad Bhagavatam. It was narrated by Narad to King Barhi (Prachinabarhi). Its frames the life of every creature in the physical world, but it is specific for the human species. The tale opens with a wanderer named Puranjan, He was a city tenant but he had no residence. While touring the earth, he got to a place on the southern side of the Himalayan Mountains. There, luckily, he met a beautiful woman who was on the outskirts of her city. They were cordial. They agreed to live together as sweethearts for one hundred years.
Besides the two lovers, there were attendants of the woman. She had a protector which was a five-hooded serpent. Once he linked to this woman, her retinue, the royal services, and security, was at his disposal. Whatever favors were due to the queen, Puranjan enjoyed. If she was grieved, he lamented just as well.
At first, the queen said that they would live together for a period of one hundred years. Unfortunately, Puranjan did not consider this as being faulty. He did nothing to prepare himself for being evicted from the city. It so happened that time closed on him during his elderly years.
This story is an allegory of the marriage between the coreSelf and its intellect. The core functions as a dependent such that the core imitates the intellect. Eventually the core finds itself in a predicament where it feels trapped in the terminally ill body from which it is evicted.
After this it realizes itself as a psychic being which must transmigrate, so that it will again develop an infant form and play the role of an experiencer again. Puranjan died from the body when he was the sweetheart of the queen. After that he assumed an embryo as a female child of a king. She, the new Puranjan, married a yogiKing, who died and left Puranjan as a widower. It was then that an invisible person, the perpetual friend of Puranjan, gave a method for getting released from the confusing transits.
