Across
- 2. in Hinduism, one surpure cosmic consciousness, spiritual force, or God
- 3. something unreal or misleading
- 4. a willingness to respect different beliefs and customs
- 8. making small loans to people who started their own businesses
- 11. focused on or gathered in
- 13. a person who tries to achieve spiritual purity through self-denial
- 17. membership in a community that gives a person civil and political rights and obligations
- 18. the belief one should not hurt any living thing
- 23. a system in which power is divided among central, regional, and local government
- 25. groups of merchants or craftsmen working in the same line of business
- 26. relating to the whole universe
- 27. a collection of hundreds of sacred hymns composed by the aryans ancient india
- 29. the effect of a person's actions in this and in previous lives
- 31. according to moral law
- 33. thinker or teacher
- 34. a state of blissful peace without desire of suffering
- 35. to eliminate
- 36. an area of north india that is home to many Sikhs
- 38. superior by a large margin
- 39. to make up for
- 40. to thrive
Down
- 1. to make up for
- 5. something that provides information about something unknown
- 6. to strain through overuse
- 7. the business practice of sending many computer-related to workers outside the company
- 9. the unfair treatment of people based on their gender
- 10. is the rebirth of a soul in a new body
- 12. is the position of a country not allying itself with either of the superpowers during the cold war
- 14. result
- 15. a person's duty or what is right for him or her
- 16. liberation from reincarnation
- 19. to slow or block the movement of something
- 20. member of the lowest indian caste grouping made up of people who did jobs no one else wanted to do
- 21. who tries to convert others to a particular religion
- 22. a state of perfect wisdom, free of suffering
- 24. being who has gained enlightenment and, out of compassion, tries to help others
- 26. a fixed social class into which a person is born
- 28. few and scattered
- 30. the physical features of an area
- 32. religious communities
- 37. forerunner or past relative; what a later thing develops from