Sanskrit
अदृष्टपूर्वं हृषितोऽस्मि दृष्ट्वा भयेन च प्रव्यथितं मनो मे । तदेव मे दर्शय देव रूपम् प्रसीद देवेश जगन्निवास ॥
adṛṣṭapūrvaṃ hṛṣito'smi dṛṣṭvā bhayena ca pravyathitaṃ mano me tad eva me darśaya deva rūpam prasīda deveśa jagannivāsa
Translation
I have seen that which none hath seen before, My heart is glad, yet faileth me for fear; Show me, O God, Thine other Form again— Mercy, O God of Gods, home of all worlds—
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
Ten verses of formal praise give way, in a single line, to the plainest request in the whole chapter: show me the other form. “Hṛṣito’smi,” I am glad, sits directly next to fear in the same breath, exactly the paired reaction verse 21 first noted in the gods and verse 36 argued was the correct response — but here it’s no longer being defended as fitting, it’s being used as the reason to ask for the vision to end. This is the turning point of the whole speech: everything from verse 15 onward has moved toward this moment, and everything from here to verse 50 moves back.