Bhagavad Gita 18.74
सञ्जय उवाच । इत्यहं वासुदेवस्य पार्थस्य च महात्मनः । संवादमिममश्रौषमद्भुतं रोमहर्षणम् ॥
sañjaya uvāca: ity ahaṃ vāsudevasya pārthasya ca mahātmanaḥ / saṃvādam imam aśrauṣam adbhutaṃ romaharṣaṇam
Translation
Sanjaya said: Thus I have heard this wondrous, hair-raising dialogue between Vasudeva and the great-souled Partha.
Reflection
When you have witnessed a great conversation between others, what shifted in you?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Eighteen
The frame returns. Sanjaya, the narrator who has been transmitting the battlefield conversation to the blind king Dhritarashtra, speaks his closing. Vasudevasya parthasya cha mahatmanaha, between Vasudeva and the great-souled Partha. Samvadam imam ashrausham, I have heard this dialogue. Adbhutam, wondrous. Romaharshana, hair-raising, the spine-tingling sense of having witnessed something beyond ordinary speech. The narrator's reverence is part of the teaching. He has been listening as carefully as Arjuna and has been transformed by what he heard. The Gita's reach is being modeled within the Gita itself. The teaching travels through the listener to the next listener. We who read it now stand in Sanjaya's lineage.