Chapter 12, Verse 5
क्लेशोऽधिकतरस्तेषामव्यक्तासक्तचेतसाम्। अव्यक्ता हि गतिर्दुःखं देहवद्भिरवाप्यते।।12.5।।
kleśo'dhikatarasteṣāmavyaktāsaktacetasām. avyaktā hi gatirduḥkhaṃ dehavadbhiravāpyate.12.5.
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- क्लेशः
- trouble/affliction
- अधिकतरः
- greater/more
- तेषाम्
- of those (whose)
- अव्यक्त-आसक्त-चेतसाम्
- whose minds are attached to the unmanifest
- अव्यक्ता
- unmanifest
- हि
- indeed/for
- गतिः
- path/goal
- दुःखम्
- with difficulty/sorrow
- देहवद्भिः
- by embodied beings
- अवाप्यते
- is attained
Commentary
5. Greater is their trouble whose thoughts are set on the Unmanifest ; for, the Goal* the Un- manifest, is very hard for the embodied to reach.
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain
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क्लेशः
अधिकतरः
तेषाम्
अव्यक्त-आसक्त-चेतसाम्
अव्यक्ता
हि
गतिः
दुःखम्
देहवद्भिः
अवाप्यते
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