Original Sanskrit

क्लेशोऽधिकतरस्तेषामव्यक्तासक्तचेतसाम् । अव्यक्ता हि गतिर्दुःखं देहवद्भिरवाप्यते ॥ १२-५॥

Transliteration

kleśo’dhikatarasteṣām avyaktāsaktacetasām avyaktā hi gatirduḥkhaṃ dehavadbhiravāpyate 12-5

English Translation

Greater is their trouble whose minds are set on the Unmanifest ; for the goal, the Unmanifest, is very hard for the embodied to reach.

Word-by-Word Meaning

kleśaḥ = trouble; adhikataraḥ = very much; teṣāṃ = of them; avyakta = to the unmanifested; asakta = attached; cetasāṃ = of those whose minds; avyaktā = toward the unmanifested; hi = certainly; gatiḥ = progress; duḥkhaṃ = with trouble; dehavadbhiḥ = by the embodied; avāpyate = is achieved.;

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The Yoga of Devotion

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