India
Across
- 1. A spiritual discipline in which a devotee repeats a mantra or the name of God.
- 6. The effect a person's actions have on their soul in this life and their next life.
- 7. Is a Sanskrit term for a "mentor, guide, expert, or master" of certain knowledge or field.
- 8. Is known as the Destroyer. The other two gods are Brahma and Vishnu.
- 11. A branch of Hindu philosophy founded by Shankara.
- 12. Is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order or way of life by which followers abide.
- 14. A social order that has determined one's place in ancient Indian society.
- 15. Movement regionally developed as Hindu denominations around different gods and goddesses, such as Vaishnavism.
Down
- 2. Is a concept within Hinduism that in Sanskrit literally means "descent".
- 3. Achieved when one is released from the cycle of rebirth.
- 4. A Hindu practice that has gone mainstream around the world.
- 5. A member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas. Kshatriya.
- 9. who appears as a main character in the Bhagavad-Gita; maya.
- 10. The decent of a deity to Earth. In Hindu this is thought to relate to the ten avatars of Vishnu. For example, Rama and Krishna.
- 13. Includes the religious duties, moral rights and duties of each individual, as well as behaviors that enable social order.