Sanskrit
न तु मां शक्यसे द्रष्टुमनेनैव स्वचक्षुषा । दिव्यं ददामि ते चक्षुः पश्य मे योगमैश्वरम् ॥
na tu māṃ śakyase draṣṭum anenaiva svacakṣuṣā divyaṃ dadāmi te cakṣuḥ paśya me yogam aiśvaram
Translation
But verily thou art not able to behold Me with these thine eyes; the divine eye I give unto thee. Behold My sovereign Yoga.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
The mechanically important verse of the whole opening: ordinary human sight (sva-cakṣuṣā, “with your own eyes”) is explicitly ruled out as inadequate, and Krishna has to grant a separate faculty — the divya cakṣuḥ, divine eye — before anything can be shown at all. It’s a deliberate piece of narrative housekeeping: the text is telling you in advance that what follows isn’t available to ordinary perception, so nothing about Arjuna’s overwhelm in the verses ahead should be read as a failure of nerve. His equipment was upgraded and it still nearly breaks him.