Can anyone answer this?

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[someone may say that aside from devotees, who always seek shelter at the

Lord’s lotus feet, there are those who are not devotees but who have

accepted different processes for attaining salvation. What happens to them?

In answer to this question, Lord Brahm€ and the other demigods said:] O

lotus-eyed Lord, although nondevotees who accept severe austerities and

penances to achieve the highest position may think themselves liberated,

their intelligence is impure. They fall down from their position of imagined

superiority because they have no regard for Your lotus feet.

10.2.32 verse

If any of the members of the four varŠas and four €ramas fail to worship or

intentionally disrespect the Personality of Godhead, who is the source of

their own creation, they will fall down from their position into a hellish

state of life.

SB 11.5.4 purport

A sick man receiving medical treatment may be encouraged by the preliminary

results of the doctor’s care. But if the patient becomes falsely proud of

the preliminary progress in his treatment and prematurely gives up the

doctor’s orders, thinking himself already cured, there will undoubtedly be a

relapse. The words ye kaivalyam asampr€pt€ƒ in this verse clearly indicate

that material piety is a long way from perfect knowledge of the Absolute

Truth. If one gives up his spiritual progress before achieving the lotus

feet of KŠa, he will undoubtedly fall back down into the most unpleasant

material situation, even if he has achieved impersonal realization of the

Brahman effulgence. As stated in ®r…mad-Bh€gavatam, €ruhya kcchreŠa paraˆ

padaˆ tataƒ patanty adhaƒ [sB 10.2.32].

SB 11.5.17 purport

I have found this quotes.

YHS

DKD