उपनिषद् · Mahā 6.27
॥
देवनागरी
प्रबुद्धोऽस्मि प्रबुद्धोऽस्मि दुष्टश्चोरोऽयमात्मनः मनो नाम निहन्म्येनं मनसास्मि चिरं हृतः
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
prabuddho'smi prabuddho'smi duṣṭaścoro'yamātmanaḥ mano nāma nihanmyenaṃ manasāsmi ciraṃ hṛtaḥ
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
प्रबुद्धः अस्मि प्रबुद्धः अस्मिprabuddhaḥ asmi prabuddhaḥ asmiI am awake, I am awake; I have wakened, I have wakened
दुष्टः चोरः अयम् आत्मनःduṣṭaḥ coraḥ ayam ātmanaḥhere is the villain and thief of my own self; behold the miscreant and robber of myself
मनः नाम निहन्मि एनम्manaḥ nāma nihanmi enamnamed mind — I shall slay him; called consciousness — I will strike him down
मनसा अस्मि चिरम् हृतःmanasā asmi ciram hṛtaḥby the mind I have long been robbed; by consciousness I have long been plundered
अनुवाद
“I am awake, I am awake! Here is the villain and thief of my own self — he whose name is mind; I shall slay him: by him I have long been robbed.”
संस्करण
88418ad63f36 · प्रकाशित 29 जुल॰ 2026, 6:29:20 am UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
An exclamation, and the only one of its kind in the whole book.
Prabuddho'smi prabuddho'smi — “I am awake, I am awake!” Twice.
This is spoken by a man who was just enumerating calamities — and suddenly woke in the middle of the list.
Note that the awakening is described neither as a vision of light nor as peace. It is described as the recognizing of a thief.
Manasā asmi ciraṃ hṛtaḥ — “by the mind I have long been robbed”.
The image of the thief was already in 5.71: the recognized thief becomes a friend.
Here the recognition has only just happened, and the first movement is anger: nihanmy enam, “I shall slay him”.
That is honest. The first feeling of the robbed is not mercy.