Pātra No. 3
Sañjaya was miles from the war.
“By the grace of Vyāsa, I have heard this supreme mystery…”
Sañjaya was nowhere near the battlefield. By Vyāsa’s grace he saw and heard all of it, and told it word by word to the blind king Dhṛtarāṣṭra. The whole Gītā reaches us through his commentary.
Arjuna asked his. Samvāda answers yours with the Gītā's own verses.
Samvāda is software, an AI companion tuned to the Bhagavad Gītā. It is not a person. It answers from the verse and shows you which one, and it never pretends to be Kṛṣṇa.
व्यासप्रसादाच्छ्रुतवानेतद्गुह्यमहं परम्।योगं योगेश्वरात्कृष्णात्साक्षात्कथयतः स्वयम्।।
vyāsa-prasādāc cchrutavān etad guhyam ahaṁ param yogaṁ yogeśvarāt kṛṣṇāt sākṣāt kathayataḥ svayam
By the grace of Vyasa, I have heard this supreme mystery of Yoga, declared in person by Krsna, the Lord of Yoga.
18.75 is verse 697 of 700, and verse 75 of 78 in chapter 18.
Sañjaya speaks 40 of the 700 verses, by the printed speaker labels.
Vyāsa-prasāda (by Vyāsa's grace), in any form, appears in exactly one verse of the 700, 18.75.
Counted by Vāṇi on the 700-verse text at getvani.app/gita.
Near the end, the Gītā explains how we are hearing it. 18.74 is Sañjaya's summary: he has heard this wondrous conversation between Vāsudeva and the great-souled Arjuna, and it makes his hair stand on end. 18.75 gives the source of his hearing: by the grace of Vyāsa he has heard this supreme secret of yoga, spoken in person by Kṛṣṇa, the Lord of yoga. 18.76 adds that he remembers the dialogue again and again and rejoices each time. So the narrator himself credits his hearing to a gift of grace. The whole book is passed on in his voice to the blind king who asked at the start. The closing verses begin in chapter 18, and what the Gītā says about devotion gathers related verses.