SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM - Prabhupada

PLATE TWOOnce, when the four sons of Lord Brahma named Sanaka, Sanandana,Sanatana and Sanat-kumara were wandering throughout the threeworlds, by dint of mystic yoga they came to ViQuloka. Although thesefour great sages were older than Brahma's other sons, they appeared likesmall naked children only five or six years old. After passing through thesix entrances of VaikuQha Puri, the Lord's residence, they saw at theseventh gate two shining beings, armed with maces and adorned withmost valuable jewelry, earrings and diamonds. The two gatekeepers weregarlanded with fresh flowers which attracted intoxicated bees and whichwere placed around their necks and between their four blue arms. Whenthe gatekeepers, Jaya and Vijaya, saw the sages trying to enterVaikuQhaloka, they thought them ordinary children and forbade themto enter. Thus Sanandana and the other great sages, who were by far thefittest persons, having realized the truth of the self, very angrily cursedJaya and Vijaya. "You two foolish doorkeepers," they said. "Being agitatedby the material qualities of passion and ignorance, you are unfit tolive at the shelter of the Lord's lotus feet, which are free from suchmodes. It would be better for you to go immediately to the material worldand take birth in a family of most sinful asuras. " (pp.45-52)