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The two doormen at the gates of Vaikuntha were wearing garlands of fresh flowers that attracted intoxicated bees and that hung around their necks and rested between their four blue arms. From their arched eyebrows, flaired nostrils, and reddish eyes, they appeared somewhat agitated.
The great sages, headed by Sanaka, had opened doors everywhere. They had no idea of "ours" and "theirs."Thus they prepared to pass through the seventh door, just as they had passed through the six ocher doors, which were made of gold and diamonds.
The four boy sages, who were naked, looked only five years old, even though they were the oldest of all living creatures and had realized the truth ofthe self.
But when the porters, who possessed a disposition quite unpalatable to the Lord, saw the sages, they blocked their way with their staffs, despising their glories, although the sages did not deserve such treatment at their hands.
When the Kumaras, although by far the fittest persons, were thus refused entrance by the two chief doorkeepers of Sri Hari while other divinities looked on, their eyes suddenly turned red because of anger due to their great eagerness to see their most beloved master, Sri Hari, the Personality of Godhead. The four Kumaras decided to curse the two doorkeepers.
When the doormen of Vaikunthaloka found that they were going to be cursed by the brahmanas, they at once became very much afraid and fell down at the feet of the brahmanas in great anxiety, for a brahmana's curse cannot be counteracted by any means.
