Shloka 18.74
Sanjaya narrates to King Dhritarashtra
सञ्जय उवाच |इत्यहं वासुदेवस्य पार्थस्य च महात्मनः |संवादमिममश्रौषमद्भुतं रोमहर्षणम् ||१८-७४||
sañjaya uvāca . ityahaṃ vāsudevasya pārthasya ca mahātmanaḥ . saṃvādamimamaśrauṣamadbhutaṃ romaharṣaṇam ||18-74||
Meaning
Sanjaya told: Thus have I heard this rare, wonderful and soul-stirring discourse of the Lord Shri Krishna and the great-souled Arjuna.
Translation: Shri Purohit Swami, The Geeta: The Gospel of the Lord Shri Krishna (1935). Public domain.
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Explanation
The narration now returns to Sanjaya, who has been relaying the entire dialogue to the blind king Dhritarashtra. He marvels that he has heard this conversation between Krishna and the great-souled Arjuna — a dialogue he calls adbhutam and romaharshanam, wonderful and thrilling enough to make the hair stand on end.
Sanjaya's awe frames the Gita for us. Having witnessed the deepest teaching ever spoken on a battlefield, he is moved to wonder. His reaction models the proper response to such sacred wisdom: not cool detachment but thrilled reverence. The teaching is not merely informative but transformative and stirring, and Sanjaya's overflowing amazement invites every reader to approach the Gita's closing with the same sense of wonder.
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Sacred wisdom rightly received stirs not cool detachment but thrilled, reverent wonder.
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The Gita on wonder, in other chapters
- Verse 11.14 · SanjayaA true encounter with the Divine moves the whole being, drawing us naturally into reverence and awe.
- Verse 2.29Approach the question of your own true nature with wonder and humility rather than intellectual certainty — the self exceeds all its definitions.
- Verse 7.9The same divine life glows in every creature and fuels every sincere effort — let that recognition deepen your reverence.
- Verse 9.11Do not judge the sacred by its outward appearance; the divine often comes clothed in the humble and ordinary.
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Questions about Bhagavad Gita 18.74
Who says Bhagavad Gita 18.74, and to whom?
Sanjaya narrates to King Dhritarashtra in verse 18.74, in Chapter 18, Moksha Sannyas Yoga (Moksha Sannyas Yoga).
What does Bhagavad Gita 18.74 mean?
Sanjaya told: Thus have I heard this rare, wonderful and soul-stirring discourse of the Lord Shri Krishna and the great-souled Arjuna. (Translation: Shri Purohit Swami, The Geeta: The Gospel of the Lord Shri Krishna (1935). Public domain.)
What is the lesson of Bhagavad Gita 18.74 for daily life?
Sacred wisdom rightly received stirs not cool detachment but thrilled, reverent wonder.
What do the Sanskrit words in Bhagavad Gita 18.74 mean?
सञ्जय उवाच — Sanjaya said; इति अहं वासुदेवस्य — thus I, of Vasudeva (Krishna); पार्थस्य च महात्मनः — and of the high-souled Arjuna; संवादम् इमम् — this dialogue; अश्रौषम् — have heard.
Where does verse 18.74 come in the Bhagavad Gita?
It is verse 74 of 78 in Chapter 18, Moksha Sannyas Yoga. The next verse is 18.75.