Mārdava
Mardava as a divine quality is to be lenient with those who make mistakes, to never be offended and remains always quiet when people revile or ignore God. To be gentle is to make friends easily. It is to know that ignorance is the likely reasons for the naysaying response. Mardava is softness, letting go of ego. Mardava is a gentleness with all objects and weakness, it is compassion extended to the lifeless and weak, Swami Tejomayānanda explains: In Hinduism, there are eight "aśtopāyas", or eight ways of attaining moksha, and "Mārdava" is one of them, the other seven  being – "Yajna" (यज्ञ) (sacrifices), "Dāna" (दान) (charity), "Vedadhyayana" (the study of the Vedas), "Tapas" (तप) (penance, deep meditation), "Dama" (दम) (subduing the senses by restraining the sense-organs), "Satya" (सत्य) (truth in speech and act), and "Tyāga" (त्याग) (renunciation of desire). In Jainism, "mārdava" or compassion or supreme tenderness or humility, which is part of Right Belief, is a means to destroy vanity or egotism which gives rise to many evils which defile the virtues of our soul; it is held that humility is the foundation of compassion and the basis for salvation. With the eight kinds of pride totally  avoided, knowledge brings humility. Tattvārthasūtra (IX.6) lists "mārdava" (modesty) as one of the ten aspects of the highest " dharma ". Bhagavad Gita (XVI.1-3) also classifies "mārdava" as a divine quality and the Buddhists consider "mārdava" as the realization of Dharma ("dharma-pratipatti"). Patanjali mentions "mārdava" as a low pitch along with "anvavavasarga" and "udutā khasya"; he explains this word as "svarasya mridutā" or "snigdhatā" (smoothness of sound).