Glossary Term
Risk: High- Approved rendering
- परमेश्वरस्य वरणम्
- Transliteration
- parameśvarasya varaṇam
- Rejected alternatives
- भाग्यम्, दैवम्
Election
God’s sovereign personal choice, not भाग्यम् (fortune) or दैवम् — the latter a genuine philosophical category debated in texts like the Mahābhārata’s daiva-puruṣakāra discussions (the relative weight of fate versus human effort), not the same as a personal God’s deliberate choice of specific people.
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