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श्री भगवानुवाच सुदुर्दर्शमिदं रूपं दृष्टवानसि यन्मम। देवा अप्यस्य रूपस्य नित्यं दर्शनकाङ्क्षिणः।।11.52।।

śhrī-bhagavān uvācha su-durdarśham idaṁ rūpaṁ dṛiṣhṭavān asi yan mama devā apy asya rūpasya nityaṁ darśhana-kāṅkṣhiṇaḥ

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 11, Verse 52
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
The Blessed Lord said, "It is very hard indeed to see this form of Mine which thou hast seen; even the gods are ever longing to behold it."

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Why: Krishna says this form of his that Arjuna has seen is very difficult to behold, even the gods constantly long to see this very form, naming the vision's rarity and value even to beings far more advanced than an ordinary human.

In life: something you experienced that felt overwhelming or hard to fully process might actually be genuinely rare and valuable, not merely difficult in a purely negative sense.

Teaching: reconsider a past overwhelming experience of your own not only as something that was hard, but also as something that may have been genuinely rare and valuable, both things can be true about the same experience at once.

śhrī-bhagavān uvāchathe Supreme Lord said
su-durdarśhamexceedingly difficult to behold
idamthis
rūpamform
dṛiṣhṭavān asithat you are seeing
yatwhich
mamaof mine
devāḥthe celestial gods
apieven
asyathis
rūpasyaform
nityameternally
darśhana-kāṅkṣhiṇaḥaspiring to see

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
11.52 सुदुर्दर्शम् very hard to see? इदम् this? रूपम् form? दृष्टवानसि thou hast seen? यत् which? मम My? देवाः gods? अपि also? अस्य (of) this? रूपस्य of form? नित्यम् ever? दर्शनकाङ्क्षिणः (are) desrious to behold.Commentary Lord Krishna says to Arjuna Though the gods long to behold the Cosmic Form yet they have not seen it as you have done. THey can never behold it.Just as the Chataka (a bird) longs for a drop of rain? eagerly turning its eyes towards the clouds? so also do gods yearn to behold the Cosmic Form but their wishes have not been gratified even in their dreams. Such is that marvellous vision which thou hast easily seen.