Upanishads · Avadhūta 27
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Devanāgarī
धन्योऽहं धन्योऽहं नित्यं स्वात्मानमञ्जसा वेद्मि । धन्योऽहं धन्योऽहं ब्रह्मानन्दो विभाति मे स्पष्टम्
Transliteration (IAST)
dhanyo'haṃ dhanyo'haṃ nityaṃ svātmānamañjasā vedmi | dhanyo'haṃ dhanyo'haṃ brahmānando vibhāti me spaṣṭam
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
धन्यः अहं धन्यः अहंdhanyaḥ ahaṃ dhanyaḥ ahaṃblessed am I, blessed am I
नित्यं स्व-आत्मानम् अञ्जसा वेद्मिnityaṃ sva-ātmānam añjasā vedmiconstantly I know my own Ātman directly
ब्रह्म-आनन्दः विभाति मे स्पष्टम्brahma-ānandaḥ vibhāti me spaṣṭamthe bliss of brahman shines for me plainly
Translation
Blessed am I, blessed am I: constantly and directly I know my own Ātman. Blessed am I, blessed am I: the bliss of brahman shines for me plainly.
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The jubilation begins, and it will run four lines; in them the word dhanyo 'ham, "blessed am I," will be repeated fourteen times. Note the change of meter. Everything up to now was written in śloka; but here the meter is different, longer and freer — this is how one writes not argument, but song.
This change is not accidental. The arguing has ended, the rejoicing has begun; and the book, which for so many lines said "I do not act, I do not desire, I have no need," suddenly speaks of what is. Note also the word añjasā, "directly, immediately, without evasion." It means "straight": I know not by inference and not by another's word, but directly.
The Vaiṣṇava reading welcomes this change of tone and finds it the most reliable passage in the book. Negations can be repeated from memory; one cannot rejoice from memory. And the very word dhanya, "blessed, fortunate, lucky," is the word of a person to whom something good has happened — and good fortune always comes from someone.