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Entry निवृत्ति

निवृत्तिnivṛttif.Returning or coming back, return; दुर्गमेकमपुनर्निवृत्तये यं विशन्ति वशिनं मुमुक्षवः Śi.14.64; R.4. 87.
1. Returning or coming back, return; दुर्गमेकमपुनर्निवृत्तये यं विशन्ति वशिनं मुमुक्षवः Śi.14.64; R.4. 87.
2. Disappearance, cessation, termination, suspension; शापनिवृत्तौ Ś.7; R.8.82.
3. Abstaining from work, inactivity (Opposite of प्रवृत्ति); प्रवृत्तिं च निवृत्तिं च जना न विदुरासुराः Bg.16.7.
4. Abstaining from, aversion; प्राणाघाता- न्निवृत्तिः Bh.3.63.
5. Leaving off, desisting from.
6. Resignation, discontinuance of worldly acts or emotions, quietism, separation from the world.
7. Repose, rest.
8. Felicity, beatitude.
9. Denial, refusal.
10. Abolition, prevention.
11. Ceasing to be valid or binding (as a rule.).
12. Completion.
13. (In drama.) Citation of an example.
In the Gita16·7 18·30

प्रवृत्तिं च निवृत्तिं च जना न विदुरासुराः ।

pravṛttiṁ ca nivṛttiṁ ca janā na vidurāsurāḥ, — Asuric men have no true knowledge of the way of action or the way of abstention; truth is not in them, nor clean doing, nor faithful observance. 16·7
- निवृत्तिम्nivṛttimaccusative singular of the feminine noun nivṛtti (the way of abstention).
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