# Bhagavad Gita 12.5

**Canonical reference:** `gita.12.5`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

क्लेशोऽधिकतरस्तेषामव्यक्तासक्तचेतसाम्।
अव्यक्ता हि गतिर्दुःखं देहवद्भिरवाप्यते ॥

## IAST

kleśo.adhikatarasteṣāmavyaktāsaktacetasām
avyaktā hi gatirduḥkhaṃ dehavadbhiravāpyate

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

immovable and constant they intent on the good of all beings necessarily attain to me. For those whose minds are attached to the unperceived the trouble is much greater. Because the unperceived goal is obtained by embodied (beings) with difficulty. As to those however O son of Pṛthā! who dedicating all their actions to me and (holding) me as their highest (goal)

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