Original · Devanagari
अथ युगल अष्टयाम सेवा मिथ्यासम्बन्धबन्धेन बद्धो भवति मूढधीः। सत्यसम्बन्धबन्धेन बद्धो भवति शुद्धधीः॥ श्रीवल्लभाचार्यवर मुनिवर रामाचार्य। मम श्रीगुरु पर्यन्त ताँ बन्दौं सब आचार्य॥ श्री पवन तनय आनन्द घन, सुमिरत सब सुख दानि। अष्टयाम वार्निक रचौं, सकल सुमंगल खानि॥ प्रथम साधक तीन घड़ी रात्रि उठे, स्नानादिक क्रिया करि बाह्याभ्यंतर शुद्ध होइके युगल नाम मंत्रादि जप करें। युगल संचादि किञ्चित पाठ करके श्री अयोध्याजी का स्वरूप, उपवन वनराज श्री प्रमोद वन, शहर पनाह के कोट के चारों तरफ हृष्टि में तावे। कोट के नीचे खाई श्री सरयूजी में लगी है, जल पूर्ण है। कोट के चारि दरवाजे अति विचित्र हैं।
Fresh English translation
Now begins Service of the Divine Couple through the Eight Periods. Bound by the bond of false relationship, the understanding becomes deluded; bound by the bond of true relationship, the understanding becomes pure. I bow to the eminent teacher Śrī Vallabhācārya, to the sage-like Rāmācārya, and to every teacher in the succession down to my own revered guru. Remembering the Son of the Wind, a cloud heavy with bliss who bestows every happiness, I compose this account of the eight periods, a treasury of all auspiciousness. First, the practitioner rises when three ghaṛīs of night remain. After bathing and the other rites, purified inwardly and outwardly, one repeats the Divine Couple’s name, mantra, and related formulas, and reads a little from the associated Yugala text. One then brings the form of holy Ayodhyā into contemplation: its gardens and forest sovereign, Śrī Pramodavana, and the fortified wall around the city’s shelter. Beneath the wall lies a water-filled moat joined to holy Sarayū. The fort has four exceedingly wondrous gates.