सुदुर्दर्शमिदं रूपं दृष्टवानसि यन्मम।देवा अप्यस्य रूपस्य नित्यं दर्शनकाङ्क्षिणः॥
su-durdarśam idaṃ rūpaṃ dṛṣṭavān asi yan mamadevā apy asya rūpasya nityaṃ darśana-kāṅkṣiṇaḥ
Word by word
The verse says
Krishna said: This form of mine that you have seen is very hard to see. Even the gods are always longing for a sight of it.
In plain words
Su-durdarśam — very hard to see indeed.
And the second line is the surprising one: the gods want this and do not get it.
Arjuna, who has spent fifty verses out of his depth, has had something the gods are still waiting for.
Where you've felt this · in creative work
A touring musician plays a small room on a wet Tuesday and about forty people are there. Two years later the same band fills halls, and the people who were in that room talk about it for the rest of their lives. Nobody in there that night knew what they were at.
Going deeper
Not knowing what you are in the middle of is the ordinary condition, and it applies to the best things as much as the worst.
Arjuna did not experience the last fifty verses as a privilege. He experienced them as terror, disorientation and a strong wish for it to stop. All of that was accurate. It was also, as he is now being told, something the gods have been waiting for.
Both descriptions are true of the same event, and neither cancels the other.
Which is worth remembering about your own hard stretches, though the verse does not promise that every bad time is secretly a gift — that reading would be cheap and the text does not support it. What it does establish is narrower: being unable to appreciate something while it is happening tells you nothing about what it was.