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But thou art not able to behold Me with these thine own eyes; I give thee the divine eye; behold My lordly Yoga.

But you cannot see me with these eyes of your own. I give you divine sight: behold my sovereign power.

Krishna explains why Arjuna has not yet seen anything. Ordinary human eyes cannot perceive the cosmic form, so Krishna grants him divya cakṣus, divine sight. The verse makes an important point about the vision: it is not something Arjuna achieves by effort but a gift that changes his capacity to perceive. Some readers take the divine eye as a literal faculty, others as the opening of inner insight. Either way, seeing the divine requires a different kind of seeing. Sanjaya, the narrator, has been given a similar gift in order to report the war to Dhritarashtra.