तच्च संस्मृत्य संस्मृत्य रूपमत्यद्भुतं हरेः।विस्मयो मे महान् राजन् हृष्यामि च पुनः पुनः॥
tac ca sansmṛtya saṃsmṛtya rūpam aty-adbhutaṃ hareḥvismayo ye mahān rājan hṛṣyāmi ca punaḥ punaḥ
Word by word
The verse says
And remembering again and again that most astonishing form of Krishna, my wonder is great, King, and I am thrilled over and over.
In plain words
A second memory, and it is not the teaching.
It is the form from Chapter 11, when Krishna showed Arjuna everything at once and Arjuna begged him to stop.
Sanjaya saw it too. And what has stayed with him is not an argument he can repeat. It is something he saw that will not fit into words.
Where you've felt this · in creative work
Your mother's friend Nirmala stood at the foot of a mountain at dawn once, about thirty years ago. She still mentions it, and then the sentence trails off. She is not being evasive. There is genuinely nothing more that can be said about it in a sentence.
Going deeper
What stays with a witness is the thing that could not be put into words, and this verse admits that openly at the end of seven hundred verses of careful argument.
The book has spent its length explaining: the strands, the causes, the kinds of action, the nature of the self. All of it in language, all of it arguable. And the final memory reported is of a sight that broke the person who saw it.
This is not a dismissal of the argument. The argument is what makes the vision mean anything; without it, Chapter 11 is only a terrifying display. But the pairing is honest about the limits of explanation. Some of what happened here is not recoverable in sentences.
Which is worth knowing as you reach the end of a book that explains things for a living. The explanations are the part you can carry and use. They are not the whole of what the text claims is there.