The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1857 page)

m
nuja theologians, belonging both to the
Ten
- and Va
a-ka
ai, employ it as a central term in their discussion. It now denotes the acceptance of
Vi
u's
grace which has been made available universally through the scriptures, his temple incarnations (see
AVAT
RA
), the hymns of the
lv
rs
, the teaching of R
m
nuja, etc. Thus it is
the
‘means’ of achieving salvation. Ultimately prapatti is the realization (in both senses of the word) of a factually given situation—total human dependence on Vi
u—which has been obscured by a separate self-awareness (ignorance) due to past
karma
.

 
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