महाभारतः mahābhārataḥ - book-12, chapter-321, verse-3

मुक्तश्च कां गतिं गच्छेन्मोक्षश्चैव किमात्मकः ।
स्वर्गतश्चैव किं कुर्याद्येन न च्यवते दिवः ॥३॥

3. muktaśca kāṁ gatiṁ gacchenmokṣaścaiva kimātmakaḥ ,
svargataścaiva kiṁ kuryādyena na cyavate divaḥ.

3. muktaḥ ca kām gatim gacchet mokṣaḥ ca eva kim ātmakaḥ
svargataḥ ca eva kim kuryāt yena na cyavate divaḥ

3. muktaḥ ca kām gatim gacchet mokṣaḥ ca eva kim ātmakaḥ
svargataḥ ca eva yena divaḥ na cyavate kim kuryāt

3. And what destination does a liberated (mukta) person reach? And what is the true nature of liberation (mokṣa)? And what should one do while in heaven (svarga) so that one does not fall from the celestial realm?

Words meanings summery:

• मुक्तः (muktaḥ) - a liberated person (liberated, released, free, loosened)

• च (ca) - and (and, also)

• काम् (kām) - what (what, which, to what)

• गतिम् (gatim) - destination, state (destination, state, course, path, movement)

• गच्छेत् (gacchet) - one should reach, one attains (one should go, one should reach, one should attain)

• मोक्षः (mokṣaḥ) - liberation (liberation, release, salvation, freedom)

• च (ca) - and (and, also)

• एव (eva) - also (emphasizing `tathā`) (only, just, indeed, precisely)

• किम् (kim) - what (what, which, why)

• आत्मकः (ātmakaḥ) - whose nature is (whose nature is, consisting of, having the nature of, self-constituted)

• स्वर्गतः (svargataḥ) - having gone to heaven, being in heaven (having gone to heaven, from heaven, situated in heaven)

• च (ca) - and (and, also)

• एव (eva) - also (emphasizing `tathā`) (only, just, indeed, precisely)

• किम् (kim) - what (what, which, why)

• कुर्यात् (kuryāt) - one should do (one should do, one should make)

• येन (yena) - so that (by which, by whom, so that, in order that)

• न (na) - not (not, no)

• च्यवते (cyavate) - falls (from) (falls, deviates, perishes, moves away)

• दिवः (divaḥ) - from the celestial realm / from heaven (from heaven, of heaven, of the sky, from the sky)

Words meanings and morphology

मुक्तः (muktaḥ) - a liberated person (liberated, released, free, loosened)

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of mukta

mukta - liberated, released, free

Past Passive Participle

from root muc (to release)

Root: muc (class 6)

Note: Refers to a person who has attained liberation.

च (ca) - and (and, also)

(indeclinable)

particle

काम् (kām) - what (what, which, to what)

(pronoun)

Accusative, feminine, singular of kim

kim - what, who, which

Note: Agrees with gatim.

गतिम् (gatim) - destination, state (destination, state, course, path, movement)

(noun)

Accusative, feminine, singular of gati

gati - destination, state, course, path, movement

from root gam (to go)

Root: gam (class 1)

Note: Object of gacchet.

गच्छेत् (gacchet) - one should reach, one attains (one should go, one should reach, one should attain)

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, optative (vidhiliṅ) of gam

optative mood, 3rd person singular

from root gam (to go)

Root: gam (class 1)

Note: The subject is muktaḥ.

मोक्षः (mokṣaḥ) - liberation (liberation, release, salvation, freedom)

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of mokṣa

mokṣa - liberation, release, salvation, freedom from transmigration

from root muc (to release) + suffix ghañ

Root: muc (class 6)

Note: Subject of the clause.

च (ca) - and (and, also)

(indeclinable)

particle

एव (eva) - also (emphasizing `tathā`) (only, just, indeed, precisely)

(indeclinable)

particle

किम् (kim) - what (what, which, why)

(pronoun)

Nominative, neuter, singular of kim

kim - what, who, which

Note: Forms part of the compound kimātmakaḥ.

आत्मकः (ātmakaḥ) - whose nature is (whose nature is, consisting of, having the nature of, self-constituted)

(adjective)

Nominative, masculine, singular of ātmaka

ātmaka - whose nature is, consisting of, pertaining to the self

from ātman + ka (suffix)

Note: Agrees with mokṣaḥ.

स्वर्गतः (svargataḥ) - having gone to heaven, being in heaven (having gone to heaven, from heaven, situated in heaven)

(adjective)

Nominative, masculine, singular of svargata

svargata - gone to heaven, being in heaven, from heaven

from svarga (heaven) + -ta (suffix) or as a compound svarga + gata

Note: The suffix tas can also indicate 'from'. Here it seems to mean 'being in heaven'.

च (ca) - and (and, also)

(indeclinable)

particle

एव (eva) - also (emphasizing `tathā`) (only, just, indeed, precisely)

(indeclinable)

particle

किम् (kim) - what (what, which, why)

(pronoun)

Accusative, neuter, singular of kim

kim - what, who, which

Note: Object of kuryāt.

कुर्यात् (kuryāt) - one should do (one should do, one should make)

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, optative (vidhiliṅ) of kṛ

optative mood, 3rd person singular

from root kṛ (to do, make)

Root: kṛ (class 8)

येन (yena) - so that (by which, by whom, so that, in order that)

(pronoun)

Instrumental, neuter, singular of yat

yat - which, what, that

Note: Introduces a clause of purpose or result.

न (na) - not (not, no)

(indeclinable)

negative particle

Note: Negates the verb cyavate.

च्यवते (cyavate) - falls (from) (falls, deviates, perishes, moves away)

(verb)

3rd person , singular, middle, present (laṭ) of cyu

present tense, 3rd person singular

from root cyu (to move, fall), 1st conjugation, middle voice

Root: cyu (class 1)

दिवः (divaḥ) - from the celestial realm / from heaven (from heaven, of heaven, of the sky, from the sky)

(noun)

Ablative, feminine, singular of div

div - heaven, sky, celestial realm, day

Note: Object from which falling occurs.