Across
- 1. devotional worship directed to one supreme deity, usually Vishnu
- 7. a member of the worker caste, lowest of the four Hindu castes.
- 9. a member of a dominant military caste of northern India.
- 10. think deeply or focus one's mind for a period of time
- 11. a manifestation of a deity or released soul in bodily form on earth; an incarnate divine teacher.
- 12. the nature of reality regarded as a universal truth taught by the Buddha; the teaching of Buddhism.
- 13. each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution.
- 14. the oldest texts of Hinduism.
Down
- 2. a follower of Hinduism.
- 3. the supernatural power wielded by gods and demons to produce illusions.
- 4. the creator god of the Hindu sacred triad
- 5. the spiritual life principle of the universe, especially when regarded as inherent in the real self of the individual.
- 6. the god of destruction and regeneration in the Hindu sacred triad.
- 7. the metaphysical reality, or the godhead, is considered metaphorically to be a woman.
- 8. a spiritual teacher, especially one who imparts initiation.