Niti

By Swami Harshananda

Niti literally means ‘that which leads towards the good’.

Various meanings or inferences of the word are as follows:

In the most general sense, the word ‘nīti’ means ‘morality’ and ‘ethics’.
In course of time, it was considered as an abbreviation of rājanīti or political science.
The word is also used to indicate any systematized form of thought like Śukranīti and Viduranīti.
Dharma, which is a more comprehensive word, includes nīti.

References[edit]

The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore