The Fabric of faith prayer and grace is central to the good life for they all relate to the man god relationship. according to the theist by virtue of his being embodied man is alienated (relatively) from God, who is his destiny. The alienation is due ultimately to a fundamental defect say sin, or a beginningless nescience. Hence the goal of man is to seek and find his lost identity in the kingdom of God.
This implies that human existence is not merely a bondage, but an opportunity to overcome the defect in question and to regain the lost identity. In this enterprise, however partly because the defect to be remedied is mysterious or beginningless, man cannot succeed wholly on his own, god has therefore to intervene positively with his grace. As God's noticeable operation in human life, grace is his quiet call and aid to salvation. Faith and prayer are our manifest response to this call.
The nature of the self is such that though it is distinct entity it forms an organismic unity with the Lord. when however it comes under the delusive influence of the begginningless nescience permiating karma, it looses hold of its identity as the sesa of the lord and builds up an emperical and particularized ego (abhimana) and begins its existence of karmic bondage. its being enveloped by ignorance in the form of karma marks its entry into the continuous surge of samsara. the prestine purity of his personality as in God now disappears. Only grace can redeem him from this depersonalization, In the process of recovery so to speak man is to co operate with His grace by way of his own faith and prayer. both of which aim at making him realize his essential dependence on God and live in accordance with this realisation. In both faith and prayer the element of feeling is pronounced.
Equivalent of Faith is Bhakti, Upasana, sraddha, nistha etc.
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