Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 12, Verse 5

क्लेशोऽधिकतरस्तेषामव्यक्तासक्तचेतसाम् । अव्यक्ता हि गतिर्दुःखं देहवद्भिरवाप्यते

kleśo'dhikatarasteṣāmavyaktāsaktacetasām | avyaktā hi gatirduḥkhaṃ dehavadbhiravāpyate

Translation

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

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

kleśaḥ

the trouble

adhikataraḥ

greater

teṣām

of those

avyaktāsaktacetasām

in the unmanifested, attached, mind, whose, they

avyaktā

the unmanifested

hi

indeed

gatiḥ

path

duḥkham

(with) pain

dehavadbhiḥ

by the embodied

avāpyate

is reached

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

Great indeed is the trouble of those who are engaged in doing works for the Lord's sake, and so on; but greater still is the trouble of those who identify themselves with the Imperishable and contemplate the Supreme Reality — the trouble arising from the necessity of having to abandon their attachment for the body. The Goal, the Imperishable, is very hard for the embodied to reach, for those who are attached to their bodies. Therefore their trouble is greater.