yadi prāpya divaṃ yatnān niyamena damena ca |
avitṛptāḥ patanaty ante svargāya tyāgine namaḥ ||
12.15 If, after struggling to get to heaven, through self-restriction and restraint,
[Men] fall at last, unsatisfied, then homage to the heaven-bound who give up on the way.