किरीटिनं गदिनं चक्रिणं च तेजोराशिं सर्वतोदीप्तिमन्तम्। पश्यामि त्वां दुर्निरीक्ष्यं समन्ता द्दीप्तानलार्कद्युतिमप्रमेयम्।।11.17।।
kirīṭinaṁ gadinaṁ chakriṇaṁ cha tejo-rāśhiṁ sarvato dīptimantam paśhyāmi tvāṁ durnirīkṣhyaṁ samantād dīptānalārka-dyutim aprameyam
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A Reading - Rantideb
Why: Arjuna sees Krishna wearing a crown, wielding a mace and discus, a mass of radiance, blazing on all sides, difficult to look at, like the immeasurable light of the sun and fire, describing something both magnificent and genuinely difficult to bear looking at directly.
In life: some truths really are hard to look at directly, even when they're not harmful, purely because of their sheer intensity or magnitude.
Teaching: it's fine to need to look at a genuinely intense truth or experience gradually, in pieces, rather than head-on and all at once, that's a reasonable pacing, not avoidance.