Bhagavad Gita
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Chapter 12
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Verse 12.05
क्लेशोऽधिकतरस्तेषामव्यक्तासक्तचेतसाम्। अव्यक्ता हि गतिर्दुःखं देहवद्भिरवाप्यते ॥12.5॥
12.05 kleśo ‘dhikataras teṣām avyaktāsaktacetasām avyaktā hi gatir duḥkhaṃ dehavadbhir avāpyate
Translations
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BradOriginal Translation

The affliction (kleśa) is greater for them, whose minds are attached to the unmanifest (avyakta); For the unmanifest goal is attained with difficulty, by embodied beings (dehavadbhiḥ).

Stoller MillerLiterary

It is more arduous when their reason clings to my unmanifest nature; for men constrained by bodies, the unmanifest way is hard to attain.

ZaehnerJesuit

(5) [But] greater is the toil of those whose thinking clings to the Unmanifest; for difficult [indeed] it is for embodied men to reach-and-tread the unmanifested way.

GambhiranandaAdvaita

12.5 For them who have their minds attached to the Unmanifested the struggle is greater; for, the Goal which is the Unmanifest is attained with difficulty by the embodied ones.

AdidevanandaVishishtadvaita

12.5 Greater is the difficulty of those whose minds are thus attached to the unmanifest. For the way of the unmanifest is hard to reach by embodied beings.

SivanandaVedanta

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

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