Verse 16.22
एतैर्विमुक्तः कौन्तेय तमोद्वारैस्त्रिभिर्नरः ।
आचरत्यात्मनः श्रेयस्ततो याति परां गतिम् ॥
Transliteration
etairvimuktaḥ kaunteya tamodvāraistribhirnaraḥ |
ācaratyātmanaḥ śreyastato yāti parāṃ gatim ||
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3
Translation
A man who is liberated from these three gates to darkness, O Arjuna, practises what is good for him and thus goes to the Supreme Goal.
From the owner's sheet · +1 more
A person released from these three gates of darkness, son of Kunti, does what is truly good for himself and then reaches the highest goal.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08 · +1 more
Word by word
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08
Explanation
The positive side follows. One who is freed from these three gates of darkness (tamas) begins to act for his own true good (śreyas) and then reaches the highest goal. The verse makes the path to freedom start with what one stops doing. Once desire, anger and greed lose their hold, the person can see and choose what is genuinely beneficial. It is an encouraging counterweight to the grim verses before it.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08