Bhagavad Gita Bhashya (Adi Shankaracharya) 12.5
Bhagavad Gita Bhashya (Adi Shankaracharya) 12.5 · 12 · Verse 5
Sanskrit Original
।।12.5।। --,क्लेशः अधिकतरः? यद्यपि मत्कर्मादिपराणां क्लेशः अधिक एव क्लेशः अधिकतरस्तु अक्षरात्मनां परमात्मदर्शिनां देहाभिमानपरित्यागनिमित्तः। अव्यक्तासक्तचेतसाम् अव्यक्ते आसक्तं चेतः येषां ते अव्यक्तासक्तचेतसः तेषाम् अव्यक्तासक्तचेतसाम्। अव्यक्ता हि यस्मात् या गतिः अक्षरात्मिका दुःखं सा देहवद्भिः देहाभिमानवद्भिः अवाप्यते? अतः क्लेशः अधिकतरः।।अक्षरोपासकानां यत् वर्तनम्? तत् उपरिष्टाद्वक्ष्यामः --,
12.5 Tesam, for them; avyakta-asakta-cetasam, who have their minds attached to the Unmanifest; klesah,the struggle; is adhika-tarah, greater. Although the trouble is certainly great for those who are engaged in works etc. for Me, still owing to the need of giving up self-identification with the body, it is greater in the case of those who accept the Immutable as the Self and who kept in view the supreme Reality. Hi, for; avyakta gatih, the Goal which is the Unmanifest-(the goal) which stands in the form of the Immutable; that is avapyate, attained; duhkham, with difficulty; dehavadbhih, by the embodied ones, by those who identify themselves with the body. Hence the struggle is greater. We shall speak later of the conduct of those who meditate on the Unmanifest.