दिग्वाससः शिशून् मत्वा द्वाःस्थौ तान् प्रत्यषेधताम्॥३७॥
pañca-á¹£aá¸á¸hÄyanÄrbhÄbhÄḥ
pÅ«rveá¹£Äm api pÅ«rvajÄḥ
dig-vÄsasaḥ Å›iśūn matvÄ
dvÄḥ-sthau tÄn pratyaá¹£edhatÄm
pañca-á¹£aá¹-dhÄ - five or six years; Äyana - approaching; arbha-ÄbhÄḥ - like boys; pÅ«rveá¹£Äm - the ancients of the universe (MarÄ«ci and the rest); api - even though; pÅ«rva-jÄḥ - born before; dik-vÄsasaḥ - being naked; Å›iśūn - children; matvÄ - thinking; dvÄḥ-sthau - the two gate guards, Jaya and Vijaya; tÄn - them; pratyaá¹£edhatÄm - forbade.
Although these four great sages were older than BrahmÄ’s other sons like MarÄ«ci, they appeared like small naked children only five or six years old. When Jaya and Vijaya saw them trying to enter Vaikuṇá¹haloka, these two gatekeepers, thinking them ordinary children, forbade them to enter.
In this regard, ÅšrÄ«la MadhvÄcÄrya says in his Tantra-sÄra:
dvÄḥ-sthÄv ity anenÄdhikÄra-sthatvam uktam
adhikÄra-sthitÄÅ› caiva
vimuktÄÅ› ca dvidhÄ janÄḥ
viṣṇu-loka-sthitÄs teá¹£Äá¹
vara-Å›ÄpÄdi-yoginaḥ
adhikÄra-sthitÄá¹ muktiá¹
niyataá¹ prÄpnuvanti ca
vimukty-anantaraá¹ teá¹£Äá¹
vara-Å›ÄpÄdayo nanu
dehendriyÄsu-yuktaÅ› ca
pÅ«rvaá¹ paÅ›cÄn na tair yutÄḥ
apy abhimÄnibhis teá¹£Äá¹
devaiḥ svÄtmottamair yutÄḥ
The purport is that the personal associates of Lord Viṣṇu in Vaikuṇá¹haloka are always liberated souls. Even if sometimes cursed or blessed, they are always liberated and never contaminated by the material modes of nature. Before their liberation to Vaikuṇá¹haloka they possessed material bodies, but once they come to Vaikuṇá¹ha they no longer have them. Therefore even if the associates of Lord Viṣṇu sometimes descend as if cursed, they are always liberated.
