Across
- 4. The four paths to liberation
- 6. the ultimate goal of self-liberation
- 10. The person who campaigned for nonviolent resistance and for a united India.
- 11. The (four) Vedas
- 12. means illusion
- 15. means "The divine light in me bows to the divine light in you."
- 17. liberation from Samsara, cleansing of bad karma
- 19. settled by Indo-Aryans, where the Vedas were written in Sanskrit
- 22. The name of the (typically) red dot commonly found between the eyebrows of Indian women.
- 23. a worship service or ritual
- 24. Hindu writings/scriptures
- 25. Festival of Lights, celebrated in Autumn
- 26. the cycle of life, death, and rebirth
Down
- 1. the moral law of cause and effect
- 2. Festival of Colors, celebrated in Spring
- 3. the highest member of the caste system, acts as a teacher or priest
- 5. Gandhi's practice of nonviolent resistance
- 7. the Ultimate Reality
- 8. Deity, the destroyer, has a blue face, a blue or white body, and a third eye
- 9. the real self
- 13. Deity, the preserver, has blue skin, 4 arms and 4 hands
- 14. Deity, the creator
- 16. The group that introduced the Vedas to India.
- 18. epics and stories that bring the more abstract Shruti scriptures to light.
- 20. the most popular religion in India
- 21. the site of ritual washings, where many request their ashes to be scattered