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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
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द्वार्येतयोर्निविविशुर्मिषतोरपृष्ट्वा पूर्वा यथा पुरटवज्रकपाटिका याः सर्वत्र तेऽविषमया मुनयः स्वदृष्ट्या ये सञ्चरन्त्यविहता विगताभिशङ्काः
dvāry etayor niviviśur miṣator apṛṣṭvā pūrvā yathā puraṭa-vajra-kapāṭikā yāḥ sarvatra te ’viṣamayā munayaḥ sva-dṛṣṭyā ye sañcaranty avihatā vigatābhiśaṅkāḥ
WORD BY WORD
dvāri in the door; etayoḥ both doorkeepers; niviviśuḥ entered; miṣatoḥ while seeing; apṛṣṭvā without asking; pūrvāḥ as before; yathā as; puraṭa made of gold; vajra and diamond; kapāṭikāḥ the doors; yāḥ which; sarvatra everywhere; te they; aviṣa-mayā without any sense of discrimination; munayaḥ the great sages; sva-dṛṣṭyā out of their own will; ye who; sañcaranti move; avihatāḥ without being checked; vigata without; abhiśaṅkāḥ doubt;
TRANSLATION
| The great sages, headed by Sanaka, had opened doors everywhere. They had no idea of “ours” and “theirs.” With open minds, they entered the seventh door out of their own will, just as they had passed through the six other doors, which were made of gold and diamonds.
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PURPORT
| The great sages — namely Sanaka, Sanātana, Sanandana and Sanat-kumāra — although very old in years, maintained themselves eternally as small children. They were not at all duplicitous, and they entered the doors exactly as little children enter places without any idea of what it is to trespass. That is a child’s nature. A child can enter any place, and no one checks him. Indeed, a child is generally welcome in his attempts to go places, but if it so happens that a child is checked from entering a door, he naturally becomes very sorry and angry. That is the nature of a child. In this case, the same thing happened. The childlike saintly personalities entered all the six doors of the palace, and no one checked them; therefore when they attempted to enter the seventh door and were forbidden by the doormen, who checked them with their sticks, they naturally became very angry and sorrowful. An ordinary child would cry, but because these were not ordinary children, they immediately made preparations to punish the doormen, for the doormen had committed a great offense. Even to this day a saintly person is never checked from entering anyone’s door in India.
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