📿 Shloka Collection

Rajan Samsmritya Samsmritya

Gita 18.76 Bhagavad Gita
📖 Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 18 — Moksha Sannyasa Yoga
राजन्संस्मृत्य संस्मृत्य संवादमिममद्भुतम् ।
केशवार्जुनयोः पुण्यं हृष्यामि च मुहुर्मुहुः ॥
Rajan samsmritya samsmritya samvadam imam adbhutam
Keshavarjunayoh punyam hrishyami cha muhurmuhuhu
राजन्
O King (Dhritarashtra)
संस्मृत्य संस्मृत्य
remembering again and again
इमम् अद्भुतम् संवादम्
this wondrous dialogue
केशवार्जुनयोः
of Keshava (Krishna) and Arjuna
पुण्यम्
sacred, meritorious, purifying
हृष्यामि
I rejoice, I am filled with joy
मुहुर्मुहुः
moment after moment, again and again

Sanjaya's voice turns inward. He is no longer just reporting. He is sharing what this dialogue has done to him. Every time he remembers this conversation between Keshava and Arjuna — not just once, but again and again — joy wells up in him. Moment after moment.

There is something deeply honest about this admission. Sanjaya is not a yogi. He is not a sage. He is a charioteer and court narrator. And yet the Gita has filled him with a joy that renews itself each time he recalls it. He cannot stop thinking about it. He cannot stop being moved by it.

The repetition — 'samsmritya samsmritya,' 'muhurmuhu' — is not decorative. It mirrors the experience itself. The joy of the Gita does not come once and fade. Each time one returns to it, the freshness is there again.

This verse captures one of the Gita's implicit promises: that its joy is renewable. Reading or hearing the Gita once is valuable, but returning to it brings fresh delight each time. Sanjaya testifies to this from personal experience.

The next shloka (18.77) extends this joy to the remembrance of Krishna's cosmic form — moving from the words of the Gita to the vision that accompanied them.

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