Grace

CRITICAL: કૃપા is the standard Gujarati Christian term, but in Gujarat’s bhakti devotional speech it also names a guru’s or deity’s favor cultivated through devotion, and Jain merit-language has no concept of unearned favor at all. Every occurrence must make explicit that grace is unearned and comes through Christ alone. Never use નિર્જરા (the Jain technical term for shedding karmic matter through austerity) or પુણ્ય (accumulated merit).