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doubt. The indication of these questions is that this helpless person must be helped to obtain such perfect knowledge which will help him to realise his purpose.
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By this series of questions, and by his earlier knowledge that the śişya is pure in mind, speech and action and so is fully qualified for Brahmajñāna, to lead him quickly to Brahmavicāra, the guru praises him in the words of this sloka. The idea is that thus praised by a pre-eminent Brahmavit, abandoning all the anxieties of his heart, inquiring into Brahman with concentration, he should become one who has realised his purpose. श्रीगुरुरुवाच ।
Śrīgururuvāca: The beneficent guru said.
Śrī guru means a guru who is endowed with śrī. The śruti says: Ķk, Saman and Yajus are the Śrī, nectar for the good which make for prosperity: rcassāmāni yajūîși să hi śrir amặtā satām (Taitt. Samhitā). If the mere sound-symbols of these Vedas are of the form of nectar of prosperity, what needs to be said in the matter of being endowed with śri in respect of the guru who has learnt the entire Vedānta passages and realised their meanings? It means that he is endowed with the lustre of Brahman which is the cause of the lustre of the sun and other resplendent objects. The guru, who is thus able to dispel by his light of knowledge the darkness of ignorance in the mind of his sisya, proceeds to answer his sisya's question.
First he praises him for the unfoldment of his mind : धन्योऽसि कृतकृत्योऽसि पावित ते कुलं त्वया।
यदविद्याबन्धमुक्त्या ब्रह्मीभवितुमिच्छसि ॥५२॥ dhanyo'si krtakrtyo'si pāvitam te kulam tvayā yadavidyābandhamuktyā brahmibhavitumicchasi ||
Blessed are you. You have done all your duties. Your family has been sanctified by you as you wish to attain Brahmanhood by cutting asunder the bonds of avidyā.
dhanyaḥ: one who deserved dhana. It does not indicate the class (jāti) of dhana or dhanatvam. What is dear to a person is called the dhana of that person (that is, a thing becomes dhana
