ध्यानेनात्मनि पश्यन्ति केचिदात्मानमात्मना।अन्ये सांख्येन योगेन कर्मयोगेन चापरे॥
dhyānenātmani paśyanti kecid ātmānam ātmanāanye sānkhyena yogena karma-yogena cāpare
Word by word
The verse says
Some see the self in themselves, by themselves, through meditation. Others by working things out. Others by the practice of action.
In plain words
Three routes, named without ranking.
Meditation. Reasoning it through. Doing the work.
No suggestion that one is for beginners, and no argument offered for any of them over the others.
Where you've felt this · in study
Three people learn to cook properly. One watches her mother for twenty years. One reads and tests everything. One burns things for five years until she stops. Sit down at any of their tables and you would not be able to say which was which.
Going deeper
Listing three paths with no ranking is a habit of this book, and it is worth noticing how rarely other traditions do it.
Meditation, analysis and action are not described as stages, with the slower ones for people who cannot manage the fast one. They are three routes, and the verse spends no words comparing them. Chapter 12 did make a comparison when asked directly, and even there what it compared was difficulty rather than worth.
The underlying assumption is that people differ in temperament rather than in rank.
For a reader this removes a question that wastes a great deal of time. Which of these is the real one is not a question this chapter recognises. Which of these you will actually keep doing is, and that is a question about you rather than about the methods.