ÿþ<HTML><head><title>Guru Gita 11-14</title></head> <body> <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> <TABLE> <TR><TD> 8 0 M 5 * > * 5 ? 6 A & M ' > $ M . > </TD><TD> 6 M 0 @  A 0 K 9 </TD><TD>* > & > 8 G 5 > ( > $ </TD></TR><TR><TD> sarvapaapavishuddhaatmaa </TD><TD>shriguroh</TD><TD> paadasevanaat </TD></TR><TR><TD> all sin purified soul</TD><TD> shri guru </TD><TD>feet from-service </TD></TR><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> Having purified your soul from all sin through service at the guru's feet, <P> </TD></TR> </table><table> <TR><TD> & G 9 @ </TD><TD> , M 0 9 M . > </TD><TD>- > 5 G & M / > 8 M . > $ M $ M 5 $ M  M 0 M * > 0 M % . </TD><TD> 5 & > . ? </TD><TD> $ G </TD></TR><TR><TD> dehii</TD><TD> brahma</TD><TD> bhavedyasmaattvatkRpaartham</TD><TD> vadaami </TD><TD>te </TD></TR><TR><TD> body-one</TD><TD> absolute</TD><TD> may-become from-which that grace-for</TD><TD> I-speak</TD><TD> to-you </TD></TR><TR><TD COLSPAN=5> for mercy's sake, I will explain to you that by which an embodied one may become the absolute<P> </TD></TR> </table> <H2>Verse 12</H2> <table> <TR><TD> <TR><TD> A 0 A </TD><TD> * > & > . M , A  . </TD><TD> 8 M . 0 M $ M 5 > </TD><TD> 2  </TD><TD>6 ? 0 8 @ </TD><TD>' > 0 / G $ </TD></TR> <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> </table> <table> <TR><TD> 8 0 M 5 </TD><TD>$ @ 0 M % > 5 >  > 9 8 M / </TD><TD>8 . M * M 0 > * M ( K $ ? </TD><TD>+ 2  </TD><TD>( 0  </TD></TR><TR><TD> sarva </TD><TD>teerthavagaahasya </TD><TD>sampraapnoti</TD><TD> phalam </TD><TD>narah </TD></TR><TR><TD> all</TD><TD> pilgrimage bathing-of</TD><TD> obtains</TD><TD> fruit</TD><TD> person </TD></TR><TR><TD COLSPAN=5> a person obtains the fruit of bathing in all the holy rivers<P> </TD></TR> </table> <h2>Verse 13</H2> <table> <TR><TD> 6 K 6 > ( > . </TD><TD> * > * *   > 8 M / </TD><TD> & @ * (  </TD><TD>  M ( > ( > $ G  8 > . </TD></TR><TR><TD> shoshaNam </TD><TD>paapapankasya</TD><TD> diipanam </TD><TD>jnaanatejasaam </TD></TR><TR><TD> drying up</TD><TD> sin mire-of</TD><TD> light</TD><TD> knowledge light </TD></TR><TR><TD COLSPAN=4> its drying up is that of the mire of sin; it lights the light of knowledge<P> </TD></TR> </table> <table> <TR><TD>  A 0 A * > & K &   </TD><TD> 8 . M /  </TD><TD> 8 . M 8 > 0 > 0 M ( > 5 > $ > 0 >  . </TD></TR><TR><TD> gurupaadodakam</TD><TD> samyak</TD><TD> samsaararNavataarakam </TD></TR><TR><TD> guru feet water</TD><TD> properly/easily </TD><TD>samsaara/suffering ocean crosser </TD></TR><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> The water of the guru's feet easily makes one cross the ocean of worldliness and suffering,<P> </TD></TR> </table> <H2>Verse 14 (first line)</H2> <table> <TR><TD>   M ( > ( > . B 2 > 9 0 > ( > . </TD><TD> ( M . > </TD><TD> 0 M . </TD><TD>( ? 5 > 0 #  </TD></TR><TR><TD> ajnaanamoolaharaNam</TD><TD> janma</TD><TD> karma</TD><TD> nivaaraNam </TD></TR><TR><TD> non-knowledge root destroys </TD><TD>birth</TD><TD> action</TD><TD> puts-an-end </TD></TR><TR><TD COLSPAN=4> destroys the root of ignorance, and puts an end to the (re-)birth and (the cycle of) action.<P> </TD></TR> </table>