Bhagavad Gita Bhasya (Gambhirananada)

(This is) My opinion' (7.18). It is certainly not
proper to speak of being or not being the best
among the yogis with regard to those who have
attained identity with the Lord. But,
12.5 For them who have their minds attached to the
Unmanifested the struggle is greater; for, the Goal
which is the Unmanifest is attained with difficulty
by the embodied ones.
English Translation of Sri Sankaracharya's Sanskrit
Commentary - Swami Gambhirananda
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
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