क्लेशोऽधिकतरस्तेषामव्यक्तासक्तचेतसाम्। अव्यक्ता हि गतिर्दुःखं देहवद्भिरवाप्यते।।12.5।।
kleśho ’dhikataras teṣhām avyaktāsakta-chetasām avyaktā hi gatir duḥkhaṁ dehavadbhir avāpyate
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Sanskrit to English Translation
A Reading - Rantideb
Why: for those whose minds are set on the unmanifest, the difficulty is greater, since attainment of the unmanifest is hard for embodied beings, Krishna names the actual practical cost of choosing the harder path honestly.
In life: it's more useful to be told honestly that a particular approach will be harder for you specifically than to be given a falsely equal comparison between options.
Teaching: when weighing two approaches to a goal, be honest with yourself about which one is actually harder given your specific situation, rather than pretending the difficulty is equal for everyone.