Sanskrit
धृत्या यया धारयते मनःप्राणेन्द्रियक्रियाः । योगेनाव्यभिचारिण्या धृतिः सा पार्थ सात्त्विकी ॥ ३३ ॥
dhṛtyā yayā dhārayate manaḥprāṇendriyakriyāḥ yogenāvyabhicāriṇyā dhṛtiḥ sā pārtha sāttvikī
Translation
The unwavering firmness by which, through Yoga, one restraineth the activity of the mind, of the life breaths and of the sense-organs, that firmness, O Partha, is pure.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
Sattvic dhriti, firmness or resolve, is the unwavering steadiness, achieved through yoga, that restrains the activity of mind, breath, and senses together. This is one of the few verses in the passage that names a method rather than just a trait — yoga as disciplined practice is explicitly credited as the mechanism producing this kind of resolve, tying the abstract guna-typology back to the concrete meditative technique chapter 6 laid out in detail.
Concepts