Such person, in spite of their austerity, in spite of their severe penances . . . āruhya kṛcchreṇa paraṁ padaṁ tataḥ (SB 10.2.32). Although they realize that "Here is the Absolute Truth," or "Here is the light," or "Here is the essence," but because they do not engage in the devotional service of the Lord, or because they have no shelter under the lotus feet of the Lord, they fall down. Surely they fall down.
The same example: you may go very high on a sputnik, ten thousand miles off from this earth, but if you have no shelter there, then naturally, you have to come back again here. Āruhya kṛcchreṇa paraṁ padaṁ. You may go high, very high. That's all right. But if you don't approach the moon planet or the Venus planet, or any other planet for which you started . . .
But these people, they are so foolish they are taking simply clap by wandering in the space a few thousand miles. They think, "This is our perfection. Because I have come so high, and 20,000 miles off from the earth planet, and there is clapping, "Oh, Sputnik has gone . . ." But where is your result? The result must be you must reach to the moon planet. Then . . . that is minus.
Similarly, all these exercises, all this cultivation of knowledge, if they do not reach to the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, they are sure to come down again to these material activities. They are sure. Because they have no taste for Kṛṣṇa, they have to. They will come again for opening hospitals and so on, so many activities, material activities. Āruhya kṛcchreṇa paraṁ padaṁ tataḥ patanty adhaḥ. This is fall down. Patanty adho anādṛta-yuṣmad-aṅghrayaḥ. "My dear Lord, because they have neglected Your lotus feet."