sanjaya uvaca: ity aham vasudevasya parthasya ca mahatmanah samvadam imam asrausam adbhutam roma-harsanam
Sanjaya says: Thus I have heard this wonderful dialogue between Vasudeva and the great-souled Partha, which makes my hair stand on end. Sanjaya's awe bears witness to the sacred power that this dialogue carries even for its narrator.
- •Even the narrator Sanjaya is moved to awe by this sacred dialogue
- •The Gita's power extends to those who transmit it, not only those who receive it directly
- •The dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna is described as adbhuta — wonderful and extraordinary
vyasa-prasadac chrutavan etad guhyam aham param yogam yogesvarat krishnat saksat kathayatah svayam
By the grace of Vyasa, I have heard this supreme and most secret yoga directly from Krishna, the lord of yoga, who was speaking it himself. Sanjaya attributes his extraordinary vision and hearing to the grace of the sage Vyasa.
- •Sanjaya received the power to witness the battlefield dialogue through Vyasa's grace
- •Divine knowledge is transmitted through lineages of grace, not merely by personal effort
- •Krishna is described as Yogesvara — the lord of all yoga — the source of all spiritual power
rajan samsmrtya samsmrtya samvadam imam adbhutam kesavarjunayoh punyam hrsyami ca muhur muhuh
O King, remembering again and again this wonderful and holy dialogue between Keshava and Arjuna, I rejoice again and again. Sanjaya's repeated joy in remembering reveals how the Gita's power is renewed each time it is recalled.
- •The Gita's power is inexhaustible — each remembrance brings fresh joy
- •Sanjaya's repeated rejoicing models the devotee's relationship with sacred memory
- •The dialogue between Keshava and Arjuna is both wonderful and purifying
tac ca samsmrtya samsmrtya rupam atyadbhutam hareh vismayo me mahan rajan hrsyami ca punah punah
And remembering again and again that most wondrous form of Hari, great is my amazement, O King, and I rejoice again and again. Sanjaya recalls the cosmic vision of Krishna's universal form with undiminished wonder and bliss.
- •The memory of Krishna's cosmic form continues to fill Sanjaya with wonder
- •Spiritual vision of the divine, once granted, reverberates perpetually in the heart
- •Vismaya — amazement — is the devotee's natural response to the grandeur of the divine