Across
- 1. Radiance or brilliance, both physical and spiritual.
- 3. Life’s endless wheel of birth, death, and rebirth.
- 4. The body as a vessel of life.
- 8. Purity and balance in nature and personality.
- 11. World or realm of existence.
- 13. Mind or the faculty of thought.
- 15. Energy and passion.
- 17. The divine play of creation.
- 19. A heartfelt emotion reflected in music or dance.
- 20. A bittersweet ache of distance from loved ones.
- 22. The heart, center of emotions and consciousness.
- 24. Earth, the nurturing and stable element.
- 28. Fervent spiritual discipline, often practiced in asceticism.
- 29. The essence that flavors life’s experiences.
- 31. The part of you that never dies—pure and eternal.
- 32. A soothing state wished for at the end of chants.
- 33. Spiritual freedom, the ultimate goal of many yogis.
- 36. Forest, symbolizing solitude and nature.
- 38. The breath of life and movement in all beings.
- 39. That which upholds society and the cosmos.
Down
- 2. The sense of 'me' that obscures the universal 'we.'
- 5. Blissful happiness sought through yoga practices.
- 6. Union of the self with the universal.
- 7. The feeling when you see someone in need and act.
- 9. Darkness or inertia.
- 10. The infinite expanse above us, full of possibility.
- 12. Liberation from suffering and individual existence.
- 14. Awareness shining like light in the dark of ignorance.
- 16. Enlightening wisdom that dispels the fog of ignorance.
- 18. Nonviolence, a core principle of harmony.
- 21. Love that transcends self-interest and unites with the divine.
- 23. Discrimination between real and unreal.
- 25. Mother Nature herself, unaltered by human influence.
- 26. Power or energy, often feminine.
- 27. Water, representing fluidity and purity.
- 30. A meditative state of pure awareness.
- 32. A community or gathering for spiritual growth.
- 34. What you sow, you reap—a universal law.
- 35. What the Mahatma championed as the greatest virtue.
- 37. Sacred flame symbolizing purification and life.