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Question: What Happens to Fallen Devotees?

Please accept my obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

What happens to fallen devotees, that is those who are initiated into the spiritual life but being defeated by Maya go back to karmic material life?

your servant

Francisco
 

Answer: They Never Forget the Ecstasy

Srila Narada Muni,  the liberated space man, has answered your question as follows:

na vai jano jātu kathańcanāvrajen
mukunda-sevy anyavad aṅga saṁsṛtim
smaran mukundāṅghry-upagūhanaṁ punar
vihātum icchen na rasa-graho janaḥ

"My dear Vyāsa, even though a devotee of Lord Krishna sometimes falls down somehow or other, he certainly does not undergo material existence like others [fruitive workers, etc.] because a person who has once relished the taste of the lotus feet of the Lord can do nothing but remember that ecstasy again and again."
--Srimad Bhagavatam 1.5.19

Sankarshan Das Adhikari