Sanjaya already knew Lord Krishna’s glory and influence but by perceiving the Lord’s special grace on Arjuna, he was specially influenced. So he declares his verdict, “Wherever there is Krishna, the Lord of yoga and wherever there is Arjuna, the wielder of the bow, there are goodness, victory, glory and unfailing righteousness; such is my conviction” (18/78).
Sanjaya’s conviction reveals that the Pandavas will gain a victory over the enemy undoubtedly.
4. The Conviction of the perfected soul
Describing the state of the God-Realized soul who has attained this state through Dhyanayoga, the Lord declares, “Having gained the supreme bliss, the God-Realized soul does not reckon any other gain greater than that and wherein established he is not shaken even by the heaviest affliction” (6/22)
The enlightened souls who have true insight into the modes of Nature know that it is the modes (in the form of senses) which move among modes (in the form of the objects of perception). By holding this view they are not attached to actions and objects. It means that a perfected (enlightened) soul has neither the sense of doership, nor that of enjoyership.
5. The Conviction of A Striver & A Deluded One
A striver following the path of knowledge has the conviction that the senses move among sense objects viz the actions are takng place in senses and he does nothing at all, (5/8-9). It means that he does not consider himself a doer.
But the worldly (deluded) people who do not know reality, clouded by egoism hold the opinion ‘I am the doer’ (3/27). He who is a doer has to become an enjoyer and so he has to take birth in order to reap the fruit of actions.
6. Convictions Of a Devotee & A Non-Devotee
God is the origin of all and all the activities in the world are going on by His power; knowing thus the devotees with faith and devotion worship Him (10/8) But the non-devotees (ignorant) think that God like other human beings is a man who also follows the cycle of birth and death (7/24).