Vers 16.22

एतैर्विमुक्तः कौन्तेय तमोद्वारैस्त्रिभिर्नरः ।

आचरत्यात्मनः श्रेयस्ततो याति परां गतिम् ॥

16.22

Transliteratie

etairvimuktaḥ kaunteya tamodvāraistribhirnaraḥ |

ācaratyātmanaḥ śreyastato yāti parāṃ gatim ||

Door Sanskrit System · Machineconcept · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Vertaling

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.

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Woord voor woord

from these
freed
O son of Kunti
gates of darkness
three
a person

practises
his own
good
then
goes
supreme
goal

Door Sanskrit System · Machineconcept · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Uitleg

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.