ते च ह्यर्वाक्तनया निजलोकयात्रयान्धपरम्परयाऽऽश्वस्तास्तमस्यन्धे स्वयमेव प्रपतिष्यन्ति ॥ ११ ॥
te ca hy arvaktanaya nija-loka-yatrayandha-paramparayasvastas tamasy andhe svayam eva prapatisyanti.
- te
- those people not following the Vedic principles
- ca
- and
- hi
- certainly
- arvaktanaya
- deviating from the eternal principles of Vedic religion
- nija-loka-yatraya
- by a practice arrived at by their own mental concoction
- andha-paramparaya
- by a disciplic succession of blind, ignorant people
- asvastah
- being encouraged
- tamasi
- into the darkness of ignorance
- andhe
- blindness
- svayam eva
- themselves
- prapatisyanti
- will fall down
Low-class people, due to their gross ignorance, introduce a system of religion that deviates from the Vedic principles. Following their own mental concoctions, they automatically fall down into the darkest regions of existence.