Verse 14.22

प्रकाशं च प्रवृत्तिं च मोहमेव च पाण्डव ।

न द्वेष्टि सम्प्रवृत्तानि न निवृत्तानि काङ्क्षति ॥

14.22

Transliteration

prakāśaṃ ca pravṛttiṃ ca mohameva ca pāṇḍava |

na dveṣṭi sampravṛttāni na nivṛttāni kāṅkṣati ||

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Translation

The Blessed Lord said When light, activity and delusion are present, he hates them not, nor does he long for them when they are absent.

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Word by word

illumination
and
activity
and
delusion
also
and
O son of Pandu

not
hates
when present
nor
when absent
longs for

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Explanation

Krishna begins his portrait, and the sentence runs over several verses. The first mark concerns the three qualities themselves, named by their effects: light, the sign of clarity; activity, the sign of passion; and delusion, the sign of inertia. The one beyond the qualities does not resent them when they appear and does not crave them when they go. This is remarkable. Such a person does not even reject inertia or cling to clarity. All three are allowed to come and go like weather, observed without struggle, because the person no longer identifies with any of them.