Righteousness - a term few can understand in our day and age, though for those who are familiar with biblical doctrine - it is the nature of mind, spirit, and soul that a man or woman has that is independent of their ability to perform for God or men, but instead is derived from their absolution from their inability to please God by their own works vitality through the redemption that is found in the Satisfaction of the Divine Justice for God's Elect and in that new state - the ability to maintain a new mode of being and becoming that is not subservient to the dictates of other's expectations or of the unjust strictures which would bind that individual to pursue a particular course of action in their life as if they are not capable in and of themselves of the maintenance of their own body, soul, mind, or spirit - namely tbe state of having attained unto a form of master morality where they are now a law unto themselves.  

"Just as a lamp in a windless place does not waver, so the disciplined mind of a yogi remains steady in meditation on the self." - Bhagavad Gita 6.19

The Use of Words as Metaphor, Allegory, Representation, Exclamation, Aphorism, or as Syllogism en Spiritu, en Vitae, en Mortis

"And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen." - Exodus 14:7