Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- कृपा
- Transliteration
- kṛpā
- Rejected alternatives
- कर्मफळ, पुण्य, स्वतःच्या प्रयत्नाने मिळवलेले
Grace
CRITICAL: कृपा already names devotional favor in Warkari bhakti (Vitthal’s कृपा on a devotee), so it reads as familiar — every occurrence must make explicit that this favor is unearned and given through Christ alone, not cultivated through bhakti devotion. Navayana Buddhist ethics, by contrast, has no grace concept at all: liberation there is entirely a matter of self-cultivation along the Eightfold Path, so for a Buddhist-background reader the concept needs to be built up, not merely corrected.
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