उपनिषद् · Avadhūta 29
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देवनागरी
धन्योऽहं धन्योऽहं कर्तव्यं मे न विद्यते किंचित् । धन्योऽहं धन्योऽहं प्राप्तव्यं सर्वमत्र सम्पन्नम्
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
dhanyo'haṃ dhanyo'haṃ kartavyaṃ me na vidyate kiṃcit | dhanyo'haṃ dhanyo'haṃ prāptavyaṃ sarvamatra sampannam
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
कर्तव्यं मे न विद्यते किंचित्kartavyaṃ me na vidyate kiṃcitthere is nothing left for me to do
प्राप्तव्यं सर्वम् अत्र सम्पन्नम्prāptavyaṃ sarvam atra sampannamall that was to be attained is here fulfilled
अनुवाद
Blessed am I, blessed am I: there is nothing left for me to do. Blessed am I, blessed am I: all that was to be attained is here fulfilled.
संस्करण
4f0044468470 · प्रकाशित 12 अग॰ 2026, 5:00:00 am UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The third line of jubilation, and in it stands atra, "here." This word deserves noting. Not "there," not "after death," not "in another world," but — here; and in this lies the whole difference between a promise and a testimony.
Let us reread the book from this point. It began with questions about who the avadhūta is; it passed through negations and arguments; and it ends with the person saying: everything is fulfilled, and fulfilled here. The Vaiṣṇava reading values such testimony above all argument, and gives the very same itself. In the Vaiṣṇava tradition, the culmination is not deferred to after death: the Bhāgavatam is full of accounts of what happened to people during their lifetime; and Caitanya spoke of the same in words most often repeated in Vaiṣṇava books.
Let us add one qualification, so the line is not read too broadly. "Nothing to do" is said of attainment, not of life: three lines above, this same person commanded the body to wash, beg, and worship the deity (24), and a line above said that he acts by scripture for the sake of others (23). So "nothing to do" means: not for myself; but for others — there is something to do.