Bhagavad Gita 7.25
नाहं प्रकाशः सर्वस्य योगमायासमावृतः | मूढोऽयं नाभिजानाति लोको मामजमव्ययम् ||
nāhaṁ prakāśaḥ sarvasya yoga-māyā-samāvṛtaḥ | mūḍho'yaṁ nābhijānāti loko mām ajam avyayam ||
Translation
Being veiled by my mystic illusion, I am not perceived by all. This deluded world does not know me unborn and inexhaustible.
Reflection
A surface you have stopped looking past, what would happen if you looked again?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Seven
He is not displayed to everyone, veiled as He is by His yoga-maya. The deluded world does not know Him as unborn and inexhaustible. The veil is not hostile. It is the natural condition of the world's appearing. The same trick that makes the visible appear hides what stands behind the visible. Most look at the appearing and stop there. They take it for the whole. The verse names this with no scolding tone. It is how things are for those who have not yet looked further. The teaching from the start of the chapter has been the slow lifting of this veil for the one who is willing to keep looking.