In Hinduism the daily offering of cooked rice and vegetable, after its consecration, is distributed by the priests to the worshippers as the deity's "grace" (prasada).
Himachal Pradesh: More than 250 deities will grace the annual procession at this year's Kullu Dussehra celebrations in Himachal Pradesh, part of the weeklong festivities in the Kullu Valley.
Thank the Deities for gracing you with their presence.
The rice paddies of the mountain terraces, each with a little shrine to a deity of fertility, grace the vistas for those driving into the interior, and Hindu temples, their family shrines wrapped in checkered cloth -- black and white, the emblems of cosmic tension between darkness and light -- recur in every village.
Collages of panspiritual, pansexual deities by E'wao Kagoshima grace a bedroom; sculptures of hats and pants adorned with artificial hair, by Jiyeon Park, lend Surrealist sensuality to the dining room.
In the magnificence of their humility, the kings borrowed this notion from a Hindu one that says a deity, in revealing himself, bestows grace upon his followers, who in turn are made receptive to this grace by seeing him.
The love of God, informed by grace, is what distinguishes the way in which Christians worship God from the way in which pagans worship their deities.
Some Hindus also believe that prasada is infused with the grace of the deity to whom it is offered.
The love relationship of the second, on the other hand, is one of dependence, and the deity assists the devotee through grace.
