Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 16, Verse 22
एतैर्विमुक्तः कौन्तेय तमोद्वारैस्त्रिभिर्नरः । आचरत्यात्मनः श्रेयस्ततो याति परां गतिम्
etairvimuktaḥ kaunteya tamodvāraistribhirnaraḥ | ācaratyātmanaḥ śreyastato yāti parāṃ gatim
Translation
A man who is released from these, the three gates to darkness, O son of Kuntī, does good to the self, and thereby reaches the Supreme Goal.
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- etaiḥ
- by these
- vimuktaḥ
- liberated
- kaunteya
- O Kaunteya
- tamodvāraiḥ
- of darkness, by gates
- tribhiḥ
- (by) three
- naraḥ
- the man
- ācarati
- acts
- ātmanaḥ
- own
- tataḥ
- thence
- yāti
- goes
- param
- highest
- gatim
- path
Śaṅkarācārya's commentary
Gates to darkness: leading to hell (naraka) which is full of pain and delusion. He who is released from lust, wrath and greed will act for the good of the self, because of the absence of that by which obstructed he has not hitherto so acted. By so doing he even attains mokṣa.