Here follows the praise of this abandonment.
एतैर्विमुक्तः कौन्तेय तमोद्वारैस्त्रिभिर्नरः ।
आचरत्यात्मनः श्रेयस्ततो याति परां गतिम् ॥ २२ ॥
etairvimuktaḥ kaunteya tamodvāraistribhirnaraḥ .
ācaratyātmanaḥ śreyastato yāti parāṃ gatim .. 22 ..
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.
Read the 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 moksha.
Let the Law guide thy Life.
The scripture (sastra) is the authority on which all this renunciation of asuric nature and the observance of what is good are based. One would engage in these only on the authority of the scriptures (sastra), not otherwise. Therefore,