Across

1 Nectar bestowing immortality (6)
4 Krsna as the fish incarnation (6)
9 Repeated birth and death (7)
10 Small lake or pond. (5)
11 Krsna book canto (5)
12 The supreme source of all energies (7)
13 Ecstasy in separation (11)
18 Reveal (7)
20 Spiritual initiation (5)
22 A staff carried by those in the renounced order of life (5)
23 Special hymns for conjuring magic or producing mystical effects (7)
24 Missing link according to the Scientists? (6)
25 Oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh (6)

Down

1 Things of value or usefulness (6)
2 He may speak Latin? (5)

3 This cheater is head of the class (7)
5 Inquired about (5)
6 8 down sweet (7)
7 Spiritual, transcendental bliss (6)
8 Don't sleep through this! (6,5)
14 Fragrant sticks (7)
15 Played during 8 down (7)
16 5th century incarnation of Krsna (6)
17 Member of the mercantile or agricultural class (6)
19 Krsna's beloved abode (5)
21 Reaction (5)