Bhagavad Gita, Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda

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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Sanjaya (Minister of the king of the Kauravas) Bhagavad Gita (Yoga of Wisdom)

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- The Yoga Arjuna’s Despondency 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:

Tell me O Sanjaya: Why do my sons and the sons of Pandu go to war in the Field of Duty (Kuru)? Bhagavad Gita 1.1

In the following verses, Sanjaya describes the preparations for the war between the Pandavas and the Kauravas on the Kurukshetra plain.

By the grace of Vyasa I heard this Supreme Yoga. Bhagavad Gita 18 74-75

Sanjaya also has the honor of closing the Bhagavad Gita (The Yoga of Renunciation of Action):

In the first verse of Chapter 2- The Yoga of 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 (The Yoga of the Universal Form of the Lord) Sanjaya appears again:

With these words, the great Lord of Yoga, Hari, revealed His supreme form as Ishvara Bhagavad Gita 11.9
Supreme form as Ishvara

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