Verse 11.8

Verse 11.8: “But thou wilt not be able to behold Me just with this thine own eye. I give thee the eye Divine. Behold (now) my Divine and Transcendent Yoga.” (154)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

Then said Lord Krishna to himself,

“His desire has not abated nor has he yet found his way to blessedness. I revealed my omnipresent vision, he does not see it.

With these words the Lord smiled, and spoke to the beholder (Arjuna),

“I have just now revealed the Omnipresent vision but you are not beholding it.”

At this the wise Arjuna said,

“And who is in fault indeed? As well might a crane be lured away to feast on moonlight (which is the birthright of the swan). Thou art indeed holding a cleansed mirror, before a blind person; and singing sweet melodies, Oh Hrishikesha, to the deaf and thou art knowingly wasting the pollen of flowers before a toad (by making him to take it); why then be wrathful at others? Thou hast opened up before the outer eyes (carmacakṣu) that which has been set down as beyond the reach of the senses and which is unfolded only to the eyes of the inward intuition of knowledge: how should I then behold it? It is, however, meet that I forbear from blaming thee, and mutely suffer all this.”

At this the Lord said,

“truly, it is as thou hast said. Rapt away in love’s ecstatic delight as I was I forgot to bestow on thee the power of beholding the revelation of the Omnipresent Deity. What wonder then that it was in vain as time wasted on a seedling sown on untilled soil. Now I endow thee with that spiritual vision by which thou shalt behold the Omnipresent Deity. With that spiritual eye, thou, Oh Pandava, shall behold to its entirety the grandeur of my divine yoga and realise it in thine experience of the self.”

Thus spake Lord Krishna,—the supreme Person known in Brahman Lore, who is the very beginning of the entire universe and the holiest object of devotional love to the entire world.