Bhagavad Gita 12.5
क्लेशोऽधिकतरस्तेषामव्यक्तासक्तचेतसाम् | अव्यक्ता हि गतिर्दुःखं देहवद्भिरवाप्यते ||
kleśo'dhikataras teṣām avyaktāsakta-cetasām | avyaktā hi gatir duḥkhaṁ dehavadbhir avāpyate ||
Translation
The trouble of those whose minds are attached to the unmanifested is greater. For the unmanifested goal is attained with difficulty by embodied beings.
Reflection
What practice have you set for yourself that your body has no organ for?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Twelve
The honest assessment. Klesho adhikataras tesham. Their trouble is greater. The path of the unmanifested is not denied its result. It is simply named as harder for those who have bodies. Avyakta hi gatir duhkham dehavadbhir avapyate. The unmanifested goal is reached with difficulty by embodied beings. The reasoning is practical. The body is itself manifest. It has senses that turn outward. It has emotions that need an object. To make the unmanifested the object of one's worship is to ask the human apparatus to focus on what it has no organ to perceive. The path is real and the path is hard. The chapter is not putting down jnana-yoga. It is naming what it costs in the natural human terms.