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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.32.21

తతస్తే క్షీణసుకృతా: పునర్లోకమిమం సతి । పతన్తి వివశా దేవై: సద్యో విభ్రంశితోదయా: ॥ ౨౧ ॥
tatas te kṣīṇa-sukṛtāḥ
[tatas te ksheena-sukritaah]
punar lokam imaṁ sati
[punar lokam imam sati]
patanti vivaśā devaiḥ
[patanti vivashaa devaih]
sadyo vibhraṁśitodayāḥ
[sadyo vibhramshitodayaah]
tataḥ — then te — they kṣīṇa — exhausted su-kṛtāḥ — results of their pious activities punaḥ — again lokam imam — to this planet sati — O virtuous mother patanti — fall vivaśāḥ — helpless devaiḥ — by higher arrangement sadyaḥ — suddenly vibhraṁśita — caused to fall udayāḥ — their prosperity.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
tatas te kṣīṇa-sukṛtāḥ
tataḥ
then
te
they
kṣīṇa
exhausted
su-kṛtāḥ
results of their pious activities
punar lokam imaṁ sati
punaḥ
again
lokam imam
to this planet
sati
O virtuous mother
patanti vivaśā devaiḥ
patanti
fall
vivaśāḥ
helpless
devaiḥ
by higher arrangement
sadyo vibhraṁśitodayāḥ
sadyaḥ
suddenly
vibhraṁśita
caused to fall
udayāḥ
their prosperity.
When the results of their pious activities are exhausted, they fall down by higher arrangement and again come back to this planet, just as any person raised to a high position sometimes all of a sudden falls.

It is sometimes found that a person elevated to a very high position in government service falls down all of a sudden, and no one can check him. Similarly, after finishing their period of enjoyment, foolish persons who are very much interested in being elevated to the position of president in higher planets also fall down to this planet. The distinction between the elevated position of a devotee and that of an ordinary person attracted to fruitive activities is that when a devotee is elevated to the spiritual kingdom he never falls down, whereas an ordinary person falls, even if he is elevated to the highest planetary system, Brahmaloka. It is confirmed in Bhagavad-gītā ( ābrahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ ) that even if one is elevated to a higher planet, he has to come down again. But Kṛṣṇa confirms in Bhagavad-gītā (8.16) , mām upetya tu kaunteya punar janma na vidyate: “Anyone who attains My abode never comes back to this conditioned life of material existence.”

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Having exhausted their pious results, they helplessly fall to earth again, their enjoyment destroyed by fate. How do they take rebirth on earth? This verse explains. Their pious results are exhausted and then they fall again. Udayaḥ means “acting for enjoyment.”
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