Shloka 5
Sātyaki’s Assurance and the Protection of Dharmarāja (सात्यकिवचनम्—धर्मराजरक्षणविचारः)
तमब्रवीत् ततो जिष्णुर्महदा श्चर्यमुत्तमम् । दृष्टवानस्मि भद्रं ते केशवस्य प्रसादजम्,“तब विजयशील अर्जुनने उनसे कहा--राजन्! आपका कल्याण हो। आज मैंने बहुत उत्तम और आश्चर्यजनक स्वप्न देखा है। भगवान् श्रीकृष्णकी कृपासे ही वैसा स्वप्न प्रकट हुआ था”
tam abravīt tato jiṣṇur mahad āścaryam uttamam | dṛṣṭavān asmi bhadraṁ te keśavasya prasādajam ||
Sañjaya said: Then Arjuna, the unconquered one, spoke to him: “O King, may you be well. Today I have beheld a supremely excellent and wondrous vision (as in a dream); it arose by the grace of Keśava (Kṛṣṇa).” The verse frames extraordinary experience not as personal merit but as a gift of divine favor, reinforcing humility and devotion amid the moral strain of war.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse emphasizes that extraordinary insight or auspicious visions should be attributed to divine grace (prasāda) rather than ego. In a battlefield context, it models humility and devotion: even the heroic Arjuna frames his experience as Keśava’s gift.
Sañjaya reports that Arjuna addresses another person (contextually, a royal interlocutor) and says he has seen a supremely wondrous dream/vision, which manifested through Kṛṣṇa’s favor—setting up an omen-like or revelatory moment within the war narrative.