क्लेशोऽधिकतरस्तेषाम् अव्यक्तासक्तचेतसाम् ॥अव्यक्ताहि गतिर्दुःखं देहवद्भिरवाप्यते ॥
kleśo’dhikatarasteṣām avyaktāsaktacetasāmavyaktāhi gatirduḥkhaṃ dehavadbhiravāpyate
The difficulty of those who devote themselves to the search of the unmanifest Brahman is greater; it is a thing to which embodied souls can only arrive by a constant mortification, a suffering of all the repressed members, a stern difficulty and anguish of the nature.
Gītā 12·5The unmanifest Brahman in its indefinable unity is a thing to which embodied souls can only arrive and that hardly by a constant mortification, a suffering of all the repressed members, a stern difficulty and anguish of the nature. The indefinable Oneness accepts all that climb to it, but offers no help of relation and gives no foothold to the climber. All has to be done by a severe austerity and a stern and lonely individual effort. How different is it for those who seek after the Purushottama in the way of the Gita!
