Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- অহানবা
- Transliteration
- ahanba
- Rejected alternatives
- মোক্ষ (Vaishnava/Hindu liberation, never use), লাইনিং (union/absorption into a deity's divine presence as sought through intense bhakti or Sanamahi ancestral favor, never use as a stand-alone gloss for eternal salvation)
Salvation
CRITICAL: অহানবা (‘being rescued/delivered’) must never collapse into মোক্ষ (Vaishnava liberation) or into a bhakti-devotee’s hoped-for eternal nearness to or absorption into Krishna’s presence in Vaikuntha/Goloka, a real and specific aspiration within Manipuri Vaishnava devotional life. Salvation is reconciliation with a personal, holy God through Christ’s finished historical work, not a devotional-union outcome.