सांख्ययोगौ पृथग्बालाः प्रवदन्ति न पण्डिताः।एकमप्यास्थितः सम्यगुभयोर्विन्दते फलम्॥
sānkhya-yogau pṛthag bālāḥ pravadanti na paṇḍitāḥekamapyāsthitaḥ samyag ubhayor vindate phalam
शब्दार्थ
व्याख्या अभी अंग्रेज़ी में उपलब्ध है। हिन्दी व्याख्या एक-एक अध्याय करके जोड़ी जा रही है।
श्लोक कहता है
Children say that analysis and practice are separate things. The wise do not. Standing properly in even one of them, a person gets the fruit of both.
सरल शब्दों में
Blunter than it looks.
Bālāḥ means children, and it is not affectionate here. It is what you call someone who has not yet seen that two things are one thing.
And then the promise: do either one properly and you get both.
आपने इसे कहाँ महसूस किया है
Two people take up restoring old furniture. One studies the joinery of the period for a year before touching a chair. The other starts stripping a chair and learns the joinery from the chair. Five years on they know the same things, and neither could tell you which route was faster.
और गहराई में
The claim is not that the two methods are equally good. It is that they are not two methods.
Analysis without practice does not stay analysis; it turns into something you can only talk about. Practice without any understanding does not stay practice either; it becomes repetition with nothing on the other end.
So each one, done far enough, arrives at the other. That is what standing properly in even one is doing in the sentence. The word for properly is carrying the weight — half-done, they stay apart.
And this is the answer to the question at 5.1, though it is easy to miss because it does not look like an answer. Arjuna asked which of two things to choose. He is being told the two are one thing seen from different ends.
For a reader that is a relief rather than a puzzle. Whichever way in you have is the way in.