PLATE TWO
Once, when the four sons of Lord Brahmā named Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanātana and Sanat-kumāra were wandering throughout the three worlds, by dint of mystic  yoga  they came to Viṣṇuloka. Although these four great sages were older than Brahmā's other sons, they appeared like small naked children only five or six years old. After passing through the six entrances of Vaikuṇṭha Purī, the Lord's residence, they saw at the seventh gate two shining beings, armed with maces and adorned with most valuable jewelry, earrings and diamonds. The two gatekeepers were garlanded with fresh flowers which attracted intoxicated bees and which were placed around their necks and between their four blue arms. When the gatekeepers, Jaya and Vijaya, saw the sages trying to enter Vaikuṇṭhaloka, they thought them ordinary children and forbade them to enter. Thus Sanandana and the other great sages, who were by far the fittest persons, having realized the truth of the self, very angrily cursed Jaya and Vijaya. "You two foolish doorkeepers," they said. "Being agitated by the material qualities of passion and ignorance, you are unfit to live at the shelter of the Lord's lotus feet, which are free from such modes. It would be better for you to go immediately to the material world and take birth in a family of most sinful  asuras ." ( pp.  45-52)