Sanjaya (Gita): Minister of the Kaurava King
Sanjaya describes the preparations for the war between the Pandavas and the Kauravas (Bhagavad Gita)
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Who was Sanjaya? (Bhagavad Gita).
Sanjaya, Minister of the Kauravas, was blessed by the great Vyasa (compiler of the Bhagavad Gita) to discern, past, present and future (gift of divine vision). He knew that they could not defeat the Pandavas, he related to the King what happened in the battle.
Sanjaya is the Minister of the blind king of the Kauravas, in the first verse of chapter 1 Yoga Despondency of Arjuna of the Bhagavad Gita of the Bhagavad Gita, Dhritirashtra, tells him what happens on the battlefield.
In the first verse Dhritirashtra (the blind King of the Kuru Kingdom, his sons were the Kauravas) says:
In the following verses, Sanjaya describes the preparations for the war between the Pandavas and the Kauravas on the Kurukshetra plain.
Sanjaya also has the honor of closing the Bhagavad Gita (The Yoga of Renunciation of Action):
In the first verse of Chapter 2 (Yoga Knowledge) of the Bhagavad Gita, Sanjaya says:
«Thus overcome with compassion and sadness and with his eyes darkened with tears, Madhusudana (Krishna) spoke these words to Arjuna. Bhagavad Gita 2 1.
Later Sanjaya says:
«Thus spoke Gudakesha Parantapa (Arjuna) to Hrishikesha Govinda
(Krishna), and with the words “I will not fight” he fell silent.
To him who is between the two armies, afflicted with anguish, O Bharata!
Hrishikesha, although mocking, addressed him these word» Bhagavad Gita 2 9-10.
In Chapter 11 (Yoga of the Universal Form of the Lord) Sanjaya appears again:
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