Passage

Romans 13

• Glossary Term

  Justification

  निर्णयः is deliberately borrowed from Mīmāṃsā/Nyāya argumentative method, where it names the definitively ascertained conclusion (siddhānta) reached after stating an objection (pūrvapakṣa) and refuting it (uttarapakṣa) -- i.e.

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• Glossary Term

  Righteousness

  CRITICAL AND UNAVOIDABLE: unlike in any vernacular in this pipeline, there is no way to fully escape dharma's weight in Sanskrit -- धार्मिकता is an abstract noun built directly on धर्म, the first and organizing category of the four puruṣārthas (dharma, artha, kāma, mokṣa) and the entire subject of the Mīmāṃsā school's scriptural-injunction hermeneutics and of the dharmaśāstra legal-ritual literature (varṇāśrama-dharma).

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• Doctrine

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: Never मोक्षः, मुक्तिः, or निर्वाणम्.

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• Glossary Term

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: NEVER मोक्षः or मुक्तिः -- both name the precise, fully theorized fourth puruṣārtha: liberation from saṃsāra achieved through jñāna-mārga (Advaita's Self-realization that ātman is Brahman), bhakti-mārga, or karma-mārga, depending on school.

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