दैवी ह्येषा गुणमयी मम माया दुरत्यया।मामेव ये प्रपद्यन्ते मायामेतां तरन्ति ते॥
daivī hyeṣā guṇa-mayī mama māyā duratyayāmām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṃ taranti te
Word by word
The verse says
This divine play of mine, made of the three states, is very hard to get past. Those who come to me get across it.
In plain words
Māyā does not mean that nothing is there.
It is the appearance the world puts on — real enough, simply not the whole story.
And Krishna does not pretend it is easy to see through. He calls it duratyayā, very hard to cross. Then he names the one route that works.
Where you've felt this · in health
It is half past one in the morning and you have to be up at six. You have been trying to fall asleep for two hours, and the trying is exactly what is keeping you awake. Nobody has ever solved this by trying harder. It gets solved by giving up on it, and the giving up is not another, cleverer kind of effort.
Going deeper
The route offered here is the one thing that could not be reached by effort, and that is not an accident.
Everything the three settings produce is itself made of those settings — including your attempts to see past them. A driven person attacks the problem with drive. A clear-headed person thinks about it clearly. Both are working from inside the thing they are trying to get out of, which is why the verse calls it hard to cross rather than merely difficult.
Prapadyante is the word for the way out. They come toward, they hand themselves over. This is the first time the book leans on the move that the next two chapters are built on.
For a reader it is less mystical than it sounds. Some problems dissolve only when you stop working on them. This is being described as one of those, on a larger scale.