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Bhagavad Gita 11.8

Spoken by Krishna (the Blessed Lord)

Sanskrit — recorded

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

Sanskrit text as printed in The Bhagavad-Gita, 1922

Translation — recorded

But verily thou art not able to behold Me with these thine eyes; the divine eye I give unto thee. Behold My sovereign Yoga.

Translated by Annie Wood Besant, 1922

Not in this edition

Transliteration
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Word-by-word meaning
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  1. Printed, 1922Known

    Annie Besant, The Bhagavad-Gita, 4th edition, with the text in Devanagari and an English translation.

  2. Transcribed and proofreadKnown

    By volunteers at English Wikisource, from a scan of that edition. View the transcription

  3. Verse number — inferredInferred

    The transcription omits or mislabels this verse’s number. It was assigned from the verse’s position between its neighbours, and is flagged so you can check it.

  4. Speaker — carried forwardInferred

    The edition names a speaker only where a speech begins. Krishna (the Blessed Lord) is carried forward from the last speaker line in this chapter of the Sanskrit.

  5. RightsKnown

    PUBLIC DOMAIN · PUBLIC DOMAIN · 1922Public domain in the United States, where it was published before 1931, and in India, where the translator’s death in 1933 put it out of copyright.