(“holy”) The word is
most often used as a noun to indicate "religious merit"—sometimes to
refer to the religious distinction that arises from a specific conduct, but
more typically to refer to the cumulative body of religious merit that one has
collected through one's karmic career's good deeds.
(All of one's acts will ultimately be realized, according to
the karma principle, therefore the merit one has gained in the past is saved
for future advantages.) Its antonym is pap, which is a broad term for religious
deviance.
