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Bhagavad Gita 11.8

न तु मां शक्यसे द्रष्टुमनेनैव स्वचक्षुषा।दिव्यं ददामि ते चक्षुः पश्य मे योगमैश्वरम्॥

na tu māṃ śakyase draṣṭumanenaiva svacakṣuṣā |divyaṃ dadāmi te cakṣuḥ paśya me yogamaiśvaram ||

But you are not able to behold Me with these your own eyes; I give you the divine eye; behold My lordly Yoga.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

Yet, since you cannot see Me with mortal eyes, behold, I give you divine sight. Now, see the glory of My sovereignty.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.

Bhagavad Gita 11.8 · SatsangVidya