The Religious Experience

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Across
  1. 5. An incarnation of a deity.
  2. 7. A Sihk temple.
  3. 10. Liberation from mental afflictions, suffering, and rebirth.
  4. 13. Wisdom that is thought to come from direct experience of Ultimate Reality.
  5. 15. Small sword worn by Khalsa initiates.
  6. 16. Actions; the law of cause and effect.
Down
  1. 1. Nectar made with sugar and water, symbolizing the sweetness of compassion.
  2. 2. A Sikh congregation.
  3. 3. Sitting meditation, in Zen schools.
  4. 4. Spiritual teacher.
  5. 6. Full awareness of invisible reality.
  6. 8. A Chinese and Japanese school emphasizing that all things have Buddha-nature, which can only be grasped when one escapes from the intellectual mind.
  7. 9. Visual contact with the divine.
  8. 11. The constitutional principle of not giving favored status to any religion.
  9. 12. Belief that there is no deity.
  10. 14. Taking a flexible, nondogmatic approach.