Sanskrit
पूर्वाभ्यासेन तेनैव ह्रियते ह्यवशोऽपि सः । जिज्ञासुरपि योगस्य शब्दब्रह्मातिवर्तते ॥
pūrvābhyāsena tenaiva hriyate hy avaśo'pi saḥ jijñāsur api yogasya śabdabrahmātivartate
Translation
By that former practice he is irresistibly swept away. Only wishing to know yoga, even the seeker after yoga goeth beyond the Brahmic world;
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
The claim here is unusually strong: even the mere desire to understand yoga, carried forward by prior practice, is powerful enough to carry someone past the Vedic world of ritual and text. Effort compounds across lifetimes in a way that outruns even formal religious learning.
Concepts