Living Religions

4. Discomfort, suffering, frustration, disharmony.
6. Believing in one’s received traditions as completely and exclusively true.
7. Intense devotion to a personal manifestation of Supreme Reality.
9. Spiritual teacher.
10. Community meal for all, regardless of caste or position.
13. Liberation from mental afflictions, suffering, and rebirth
14. Order of Sikhs who have undergone special initiation and observe a strict code of conduct.
16. The first morning prayer of Sikhs, composed by Guru Nanak.
17. Belief that there is only one deity.

1. An approach to life focusing on humans’ responsibility to lead ethical lives without belief in the supernatural.
2. An incarnation of a deity.
3. A sudden experience of enlightened awareness
5. Narrative using symbols to convey abstract ideas.
8. A usually ascetic spiritual community of followers gathered around their guru.
11. Belief that there is no deity.
12. A Sikh congregation.
15. A high Vajrayana teacher.