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Dhṛti or Dhriti or Dhruti (
Dhruti, meaning 'fortitude' and 'determination', is defined as the subtle faculty in a person that makes them strive continuously towards a goal. Dhruti or Dhriti is a quality of courage, patience, enthusiasm, and perseverance to face and overcome all odds and obstacles.[citation needed]
Dhrti is one of the yamas, one of the eleven Rudrāṇīs.[6] There is no correct equivalent English word for dhrti which is derived from dhr- meaning 'to bear'.[7] Dhriti was reborn as Madri in the Mahabharata.[8]
Lakshmi is referred to the epithet of Dhruti or Dhriti in the Lakshmi Sahasranama to describe her quality of courage and light.[9]
The name Dhriti also appears in the Lalita Sahasranama.[10]
Vedic relevance
This article contains close paraphrasing of a non-free copyrighted source, Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Puranas by Swami Parmeshwaranand (2001). (July 2023) |
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Puranic relevance
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Dhrti meaning 'fortitude' and 'determination' is defined as the subtle faculty in man that makes him strive continuously towards a goal. It provides courage, enthusiasm and perseverance to face and overcome all odds and obstacles.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar suggests the three gunas that is determination, similar to dhrti; "The ambition (rajastic) keeps the faith alive. Satvic faith is innocence and is born out of fullness of consciousness." Tamasic faith is due to dullness, complacent that only God will take care of all these things. If there is no faith, there is fear. "In Gyana (state of wisdom) there is alertness without tension [or fear] and faith without complacency." To be one who possesses the higher spiritual knowledge.[18]
The two factors that supply the fuel and the motive force in all sustained endeavours are - buddhi ('understanding') and dhrti ('fortitude'), the former is 'the intellectual capacity to grasp what is happening' and the latter is 'the constancy of purpose and self-application'.[19] Abhinavagupta states that since everyone works therefore, everyone possesses dhrti; he holds buddhi to mean 'resolution' and dhrti to mean 'satisfaction'.[20]
In Hinduism, four things viz. Śruti and Smriti which are society’s codes of ethics, sadacara which is good noble conduct accepted by society; and svasya ca priyam atmanah which is one’s own joy and pleasure, determine Dharma. The sanatana dharma is the eternal universal values to be followed by all people in life, and varnasrama dharma consists of specific duties given to each individual; Dharma means that holds everyone and everything together which leads to material prosperity and spiritual realization in this life itself. According to Manu, Dhrti is one of the ten values necessary for all people at all times that characterize Dharma. Dhrti means fortitude; it means the capacity to hold on to something. It is the sattavic dhrti which is strength, force and ability that makes us hold on to noble values of life.[21]
Sattavic dhrti and Sattvic buddhi are mutually related terms. Krishna explains to Arjuna (Bhagavad Gita Sl. XVIII.30):
- प्रवृति च निवृति च कार्याकार्ये भयाभये |
- बन्धं मोक्षं च या वेत्ति बुद्धिः सा पार्थ सात्त्विकी ||
Meaning; "That which knows the paths of work and renunciation, what ought to be done and what not to be done, fear and fearlessness, bondage and liberation, that 'understanding' is sattvic ('pure')." In the Bhagavad Gita the nature of Sattvic reasoning, Rajasic reasoning and Tamasic reasoning is described this way, as paths of work and renunciation. Which means the function of the intellect is
- धृत्या यया धारयते मनः प्राणेन्द्रियकिर्याः |
- योगेनव्यभिचरिण्या धृतिः सा पार्थ सात्त्विकी ||
The unwavering 'fortitude' by which through Yoga, the functions of the mind, the Prana and the senses are restrained, that 'fortitude', is sattvic ('pure').[22][23][24] In this context
Yogic relevance
- योगाङगानुष्ठानादशुध्दिक्षये ज्ञानदीप्तिराविवेकख्यातेः |
- "From the consistent practice of the parts of the Yoga-process, on the elimination of the impurity, the radiant organ of perception becomes manifest, until there is a steady discriminative insight."
This means – as impurities are eliminated through the observance of the steps of
Vaishno relevance
Verse II.vi.145 of Sri Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu states – the steadiness of heart arising from attaining realization of the Lord, from absence of suffering in attaining the realization of the Lord, and from realizing prema with the Lord is called dhrti; in this state there is no lamentation for things not attained or for things that have disappeared. Ksama ('tolerance') is included in dhrti-bhava. The three types of rati ('relationship of love', 'attraction') are priti ('affection'), sakhya ('friendship') and vatsalya, dhrti along with vitarka ('conjecture'), mati ('scriptural conclusion'), nirveda ('self-disgust'), smrti ('remembrance'), harsa ('joy'), and the type of bodha arising from destruction of ignorance become somewhat causes of rati.[27]
References
- ^ Bhagavad Gita Sl. XVIII.26
- ^ Srimad Bhagavatam Sl. V.v.10–13
- ^ Caitanyacaritamrita Madhya Sl. XXIV.11
- ^ Caitanyacaritamrita Madhya Sl. XXIV.174
- ^ Caitanyacaritamrita Madhya Sl. XXIV.333
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