Bhagavad Gita Chapter 11 - Viswarupa Darasana Yoga - Sloka 8

The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of Srimad Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission

The Divine Eye 5-8

1 Gita Sloka  every day - Chapter 11 - Viswarupa Darsana Yoga - Sloka 8

Lost Gopis searching for Krishna

Na tu mam shakyase drashtum anena evasva chakshusha I 

Divyam dadami te chakshuh pashya me yogam aishwaryam II sloka 8

न तु मां शक्यसे द्रष्टुं अनेन एवस्व चक्षुषा I 

दिव्यं ददामि ते चक्षुः  पश्य मे योगं योगं ऐश्वर्यम् II श्लोक 8

But you cannot see me with those eyes of yours; I give you divine sight; behold my supreme yoga.

In the  scheme of evolution of life, one species evolves into another until perfection in body and mind is reached in the human. Nothing in nature can be found parallel to the human tabernacle, the human brain and the human mind. Man is a repository of knowledge. He has added marvelously and continues to add to his knowledge of things in nature. HE is correspondingly gaining mastery over everything in it to an enormous extent. Human contrived aids to sense knowledge like the telescope, the microscope, the x-ray, and the stethoscope are equally marvellous. But the seeming mastery over nature has not  minimised his proneness to misery; it has in a way aggravated it. His enormously increased intellectual knowledge has not solved problems of life and death; it has only complicated them further.

Yoga steps in here to make the human life a fulfillment. Through the practise of yoga a super sense called the divine eye can be developed. It is neither freak nor an accident. With precision and certainty the spiritual eye can be evolved. It is the outcome of a perfectly disciplined pure life. man completes his evolution with the acquisition of this divine insight. After getting established in spiritual excellence the sadhaka is required to subordinate his personal and cosmic will in theological parlance. When these conditions are fulfilled the realisation of god becomes possible.

Arjuna is blessed with the vision of the Lord with the whole universe in one part of his body. This realisation relieves him of all his problems, personal and public. He gets enlightened so as to discharge his duty as a willing instrument at the hands of the Lord. The sage vyasa is all perfection and he intuits the lord in all his aspects. By the grace of this sage, Sanjaya is favoured withe the same cosmic vision of the lordwhich Arjuna gets, and he faithfully reports it to his blind monarch Dhritharashtra.