Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 6, Verse 42

अथवा योगिनामेव कुले भवति धीमताम् । एतद्धि दुर्लभतरं लोके जन्म यदीदृशम्

athavā yogināmeva kule bhavati dhīmatām | etaddhi durlabhataraṃ loke janma yadīdṛśam

Translation

Else, he is born in a family of wise Yogins only. This, verily, a birth like this, is very hard to obtain in this world.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

athavā

or

yoginām

of yogis

eva

even

kule

in the family

bhavati

becomes

dhīmatām

of wise

etat

this

hi

indeed

durlabhataram

very difficult to obtain

loke

in the world

janma

birth

yat

which

īdṛśam

like this

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

Or else he is born in quite a different family, that of poor wise Yogins. A birth in a family of this sort, in a family of poor Yogins, is more difficult to obtain than the one mentioned above.