te - those people not following the Vedic principles; ca - and; hi - certainly; arvāktanayā - deviating from the eternal principles of Vedic religion; nija-loka-yātrayā - by a practice arrived at by their own mental concoction; andha-paramparayā - by a disciplic succession of blind. ignorant people; āśvastāḥ - being encouraged; tamasi - into the darkness of ignorance; andhe - blindness; svayam eva - themselves; prapatiṣyanti - 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.