Bhagavata Purana 4.26.8
Srimad Bhagavatam · 26 · Verse 8
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Sanskrit Original
अन्यथा कर्म कुर्वाणो मानारूढो निबध्यते । गुणप्रवाहपतितो नष्टप्रज्ञो व्रजत्यध: ॥ ८ ॥
anyathā karma kurvāṇo mānārūḍho nibadhyate guṇa-pravāha-patito naṣṭa-prajño vrajaty adhaḥ
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Otherwise, a person who acts whimsically falls down due to false prestige. Thus he becomes involved in the laws of nature, which are composed of the three qualities [goodness, passion and ignorance]. In this way a living entity becomes devoid of his real intelligence and becomes perpetually lost in the cycle of birth and death. Thus he goes up and down from a microbe in stool to a high position in the Brahmaloka planet.