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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 8.21.34

విప్రలబ్ధో దదామీతి త్వయాహం చాఢ్యమానినా । తద్ వ్యలీకఫలం భుఙ్‌క్ష్వ నిరయం కతిచిత్ సమా: ॥ ౩౪ ॥
vipralabdho dadāmīti
[vipralabdho dadaameeti]
tvayāhaṁ cāḍhya-māninā
[tvayaaham chaadhya-maaninaa]
tad vyalīka-phalaṁ bhuṅkṣva
[tad vyaleeka-phalam bhunkshva]
nirayaṁ katicit samāḥ
[nirayam katichit samaah]
vipralabdhaḥ — now I am cheated dadāmi — I promise I shall give you iti — thus tvayā — by you aham — I am ca — also āḍhya-māninā — by being very proud of your opulence tat — therefore vyalīka-phalam — as a result of cheating bhuṅkṣva — you enjoy nirayam — in hellish life katicit — a few samāḥ — years.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
vipralabdho dadāmīti
vipralabdhaḥ
now I am cheated
dadāmi
I promise I shall give you
iti
thus
tvayāhaṁ cāḍhya-māninā
tvayā
by you
aham
I am
ca
also
āḍhya-māninā
by being very proud of your opulence
tad vyalīka-phalaṁ bhuṅkṣva
tat
therefore
vyalīka-phalam
as a result of cheating
bhuṅkṣva
you enjoy
nirayaṁ katicit samāḥ
nirayam
in hellish life
katicit
a few
samāḥ
years.
Being falsely proud of your possessions, you promised to give Me land, but you could not fulfill your promise. Therefore, because your promise was false, you must live for a few years in hellish life.

The false prestige of thinking “I am very rich, and I possess such vast property” is another side of material life. Everything belongs to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and no one else possesses anything. This is the real fact. īśāvāsyam idaṁ samaṁ yat kiṣca jagatyāṁ jagat . Bali Mahārāja was undoubtedly the most exalted devotee, whereas previously he had maintained a misunderstanding due to false prestige. By the supreme will of the Lord, he now had to go to the hellish planets, but because he went there by the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he lived there more opulently than one could expect to live in the planets of heaven. A devotee always lives with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, engaging in His service, and therefore he is always transcendental to hellish or heavenly residences.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Eighth Canto, Twenty-first Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled “Bali Mahārāja Arrested by the Lord”

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Being falsely proud of your possessions, you cheated me by saying “I will give.” Therefore, you must live for a few years in hellish life, as the result of lying. “Then what will happen?” Please listen. (There is another meaning to the verse.) You are more respected by people than Indra (āḍhya-māninā) because you have attained me especially (vipralabdhaḥ). Therefore I give this result. Enjoy for some years the pleasures of Sutala, the abode whose result is the highest truth (vyalīka), since it is given by me. Then during the eighth Manvantara, I will put you in the post of Indra and after that take you to my abode Vaikuṇṭha. Thus ends the commentary on the Twenty-first Chapter of the Eighth Canto of the Bhāgavatam for the pleasure of the devotees, in accordance with the previous ācāryas. Chapter Twenty-two Bali Achieves Sutala
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