Prakaraṇa 4 · Verse 19
यथा वाताहता नौर् भ्रंशयत्य् एव तार्किकम्, एवं कष्टं महा-योगिनम् अपि संमोह-दायकम्
yathā vātāhatā naur bhraṃśayaty eva tārkikam, evaṃ kaṣṭaṃ mahā-yoginam api saṃmoha-dāyakam
Just as a boat tossed by the wind causes the logician to fall, so can difficulty confuse even the great yogī.
The nautical metaphor is classic, yet the twist is modern. The tārkika—the logician, the one grounded in tarka—is not ignorant; he is precisely the one who