Verse 12.5

bg.12.5

Sanskrit

क्लेशोऽधिकतरस्तेषामव्यक्तासक्तचेतसाम्। अव्यक्ता हि गतिर्दुःखं देहवद्भिरवाप्यते।।12.5।।

Sanskrit (gita/gita data/verse.json)

Transliteration

kleśho ’dhikataras teṣhām avyaktāsakta-chetasām avyaktā hi gatir duḥkhaṁ dehavadbhir avāpyate

Transliteration (gita/gita data/verse.json)

English

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

English — Swami Sivananda (praneshp1org/Bhagavad-Gita-JSON-data translation.json)

Hindi

।।12.5।।अव्यक्तमें आसक्त चित्तवाले उन साधकोंको (अपने साधनमें) कष्ट अधिक होता है; क्योंकि देहाभिमानियोंके द्वारा अव्यक्त-विषयक गति कठिनतासे प्राप्त की जाती है।

Hindi — Swami Ramsukhdas (praneshp1org/Bhagavad-Gita-JSON-data translation.json)

Modern English

kleśhaḥ—tribulations; adhika-taraḥ—full of; teṣhām—of those; avyakta—to the unmanifest; āsakta—attached; chetasām—whose minds; avyaktā—the unmanifest; hi—indeed; gatiḥ—path; duḥkham—exceeding difficulty; deha-vadbhiḥ—for the embodied; avāpyate—is reached

Word meanings (gita/gita data/verse.json)

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