Thegear sages Sanaka, Santana, Sanandana; and Sanat-kumāra, upon reaching Varkuncha in the spiritual world by dint of their powers of mystic yoga, perceived unprecedented
happiness. They found that the spiritual sky was illuminated by highly decorated airplanes piloted by the best devotees, and that it was predominated by the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
After passing through the six entrances of Vaikuṇṭha Purī, the Lord's residence, without feeling astonishment at the decorations, they saw at the seventh gate two shining beings of the same age. They were armed with maces and adorned with most valuable earrings, diamonds, helmets, and garments. The two doormen 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 other 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 of the 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 Kumāras, although by far the fittest persons, were thus refused entrance by the two chief doorkeepers of Śrī 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, Śrī Hari, the Personality of Godhead.
The Kumāras decided to curse the two doorkeepers. When the doormen of Vaikunthaloka found that they were going to be cursed by the brāhmaṇas, they at once became very much afraid and fell down at the feet of the brāhmaṇas in great anxiety, for a brāhmaṇa's curse cannot be counteracted by any means.