Gita 18.75 Sanjaya appreciates the content, the source and the channel of the Gita’s wisdom

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Thank you. Bhagavad Gita 18.75 Bhagavad Gita 18.75 Sanjay is speaking the last five verses of the Bhagavad Gita, which will conclude this glorious discussion. In the previous verse he stated how he has heard this magnificent conversation.
Thrilling conversation. And now he continues and he says that how was I able to hear this? By the mercy of Vyasa I was able to hear it. This was Guhiyam.
It is not just Guhiya, confidential, but Param. It is very, it is very exalted conversation. Yogam Yogeshwarat Krishnath And it is spoken by Krishna, who is himself Yogeshwar.
Sakshat himself, Kathayatahaswayam, himself has spoken this. There are three characteristics, three points being made in here. This, that it is by Vyasa’s mercy that I was able to hear.
Vyasa, Prasada, Shrutvan. Without the mercy of Vyasa Dev, I would not be able to hear this. So I am immensely grateful to him for giving me the opportunity to hear.
How did Vyasa give the opportunity? Actually, when the Kurukshetra war was about to commence, Vyasa Dev came to Dhritarashtra. Dhritarashtra had been fathered by Vyasa Dev. Although, Vyasa Dev is not technically considered to be his father, because it was in Yoga, the ritual in which he was, he was used to impregnate his, Dhritarashtra’s mother.
But essentially, Vyasa Dev was a sage and he was the well-wisher of everyone, including Dhritarashtra. So when he had come there, he asked Dhritarashtra, if you, Dhritarashtra was blind, if you want, I can give you the eyes to see. So Dhritarashtra said, to see the war.
Dhritarashtra had a grim sense that he would not be able to, that his sons were going to be killed. And therefore, he decided that he had better not see this war. So he said that, give the eyes to Sanjay, by which Sanjay can narrate the war to me.
I have not seen my sons in life. I don’t want to see them in death. But still, I want to know what happened.
So then Vyasa Dev benedicted Sanjay. And that’s how Sanjay could see the war, although he was away from it. The war was in Kurukshetra and Sanjay and Dhritarashtra were in Hastinapur.
So Vyasa Prasada Shrutvam, I heard by his mercy, E Tat Guhyam Ahamparam. What I have heard is, it’s extremely confidential knowledge. Guhyamparam.
And Yogam Yogeshwarat Krishnath. Why is this knowledge confidential? Because this is not just the knowledge of Atma, which itself is not known to many people. Nor is it the knowledge of the Paramatma, the Supreme Soul who pervades all of existence.
But this is knowledge of Bhagawan, of the all-attracted Supreme Person, of His love for all living beings, is especially His compassionate heart with which He tries to, with which He seeks to enrich everyone. So it is that Krishna who is who, about whom this knowledge is. Love for Krishna, that knowledge is.
It is confidential. Krishna himself has said repeatedly that this is confidential knowledge. This poem was written in 18.64 before speaking the crestial verses.
66 and 65 respectively. So we ask David also. So Sanjay is also appreciating that he has been given a very confidential knowledge.
And thus he says, I am grateful, I am immensely grateful for having been given this knowledge. And this is secret knowledge. Normally if we are able to get into a very, a big university where admission is not easily available and there we learn something, we would consider it as a great privilege, as a great favor.
Because that university not anyone can get in. Similarly, the knowledge of the Bhagavad Gita is confidential knowledge. So he is appreciating that by the ask of his mercy, I have heard this confidential knowledge.
And the knowledge is confidential, but the source of that knowledge is even more confidential. Yogam, Yogeshwarat, Krishnaat. So Yogam is the knowledge of yoga.
This whole Bhagavad Gita is a book which talks about yoga. About how each one of us can by the practice of yoga attain perfection. Yogam, Yogeshwarat, Krishnaat, that is Yogeshwarat, the lord of yoga.
Krishna has also exhibited his mystic prowess when he, his yogic shakti, vibhuti, when he displayed the universal form in the 11th chapter. that Yogeshwarat, so this knowledge of yoga has come from the lord of yoga. That means it is the most authentic knowledge.
If we learn some knowledge from the person who is the founder of that knowledge, you say, if we want to learn some software program and we learn it from the person who has made that program, then that person knows it the best and that person can tell it the best. So similarly, Yogam, Yogeshwarat, Krishnaat, so that lord of yoga has spoken it, this is Krishna, Sakshat, Kathayatah, Swayam, so he himself was present, Sakshat, he could be seen with the eyes not just as Krishna but as Yogeshwar, as the one who manifested the universal form and showed his extraordinary opulence. Sakshat, Kathayatah, Swayam, so he was manifest to these eyes and while being manifest to these eyes, Kathayatah, Swayam, he spoke these words.
Thus he is, it is supremely blessed that he is present with, that he was present and he has given this knowledge himself. So Sakshat and Swayam might seem repetitious but they have different subjects that they are describing. Sakshat is Yogam, Yogeshwarat, Krishna, that is the describer for that.
And this lord of mystic yoga was himself present and Swayam is the describer for Kathayatah, that he himself spoke this. So this way the whole point of the verse is that after having been, having got the treasure, the enrichment of hearing the Gita, he is profoundly appreciative, Sanjay is profoundly appreciative, profoundly grateful for what he has got and thus both the content of the knowledge and the source of the knowledge he is appreciating in this verse and he is also appreciating the giver of the mercy by whom this knowledge became accessible to him. Generally when we are given knowledge, if we feel grateful for that knowledge then that enables us to move forward in our life.
That gratitude indicates that what we have got is valuable, that gratitude indicates that we are all in a position by which we can move forward steadily and ultimately attain Krishna, especially if it is knowledge about Krishna. So appreciating the gift that we have, the gratitude for the gift that we have, that is demonstrated here by Vyasadeva, by Sanjay, by appreciating the source of the knowledge, the content of the knowledge and the one who gave him access to that knowledge. Thank you.