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<center><H1> Guru Gita 11-14</H1></center>

These verses give a deeper meaning to the 

concept of baptism and provide a beautiful practice to do each morning.<P>





<H2>Verse 11</H2>



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sarvapaapavishuddhaatmaa </TD><TD>shriguroh</TD><TD> paadasevanaat

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all sin purified soul</TD><TD> shri guru </TD><TD>feet from-service

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Having purified your soul from all sin through service at the guru's feet, <P>

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dehii</TD><TD> brahma</TD><TD> bhavedyasmaattvatkRpaartham</TD><TD> vadaami </TD><TD>te

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body-one</TD><TD> absolute</TD><TD> may-become from-which that grace-for</TD><TD> I-speak</TD><TD> to-you

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for mercy's sake, I will explain to you that by which an embodied one may become the absolute<P>

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<H2>Verse 12</H2>





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<TR><TD>guru</TD><TD> paadaambujam</TD><TD> smRtvaa</TD><TD> jalam </TD><TD>shirasi</TD><TD> dhaarayet</TD></TR>

<TR><TD>guru</TD><TD> feet lotus</TD><TD> having-remembered</TD><TD>water</TD><TD> on-head</TD><TD> should-bear/place</TD></TR>

<TR><TD COLSPAN=6>Remembering the guru's lotus feet, put water on the head<P></TD></TR>



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sarva </TD><TD>teerthavagaahasya </TD><TD>sampraapnoti</TD><TD> phalam </TD><TD>narah

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all</TD><TD> pilgrimage bathing-of</TD><TD> obtains</TD><TD> fruit</TD><TD> person

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a person obtains the fruit of bathing in all the holy rivers<P>

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<h2>Verse 13</H2>



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shoshaNam </TD><TD>paapapankasya</TD><TD> diipanam </TD><TD>jnaanatejasaam

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drying up</TD><TD> sin mire-of</TD><TD> light</TD><TD> knowledge light

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its drying up is that of the mire of sin; it lights the light of knowledge<P>

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gurupaadodakam</TD><TD> samyak</TD><TD> samsaararNavataarakam

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guru feet water</TD><TD> properly/easily </TD><TD>samsaara/suffering ocean crosser

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The water of the guru's feet easily makes one cross the ocean of worldliness and suffering,<P>

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<H2>Verse 14 (first line)</H2>

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ajnaanamoolaharaNam</TD><TD> janma</TD><TD> karma</TD><TD> nivaaraNam

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non-knowledge root destroys </TD><TD>birth</TD><TD> action</TD><TD> puts-an-end

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destroys the root of ignorance, and puts an end to the (re-)birth and (the cycle of) action.<P>

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