Srila Prabhupada Nectar

2010-06-27
Srimad Bhagavatam 08.21.33-34 - Srila Prabhupada Nectar (download mp3) 
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 SB 8.21.33
vrtha manorathas tasya
durah svargah pataty adhah
pratisrutasyadanena
yo 'rthinam vipralambhate
Translation:
Far from being elevated to the heavenly planets or fulfilling one's desire, one who does not properly give a beggar what he has promised falls down to a hellish condition of life.

SB 8.21.34
vipralabdho dadamiti
tvayaham cadhya-manina
tad vyalika-phalam bhunksva
nirayam katicit samah
Translation:
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.

Purport:
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. Isavasyam idam samam yat kiñca jagatyam jagat. Bali Maharaja 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 Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled "Bali Maharaja Arrested by the Lord"