सुमिरत सुखद समाज, नवधा जहाँ साधन भई। दसधा भक्ति सुसाज, परा दसा छाँके रहत॥१॥
I remember the bliss-giving assembly in whom ninefold devotion became the discipline and tenfold devotion its beautiful fullness. They remain steeped in the supreme state.
मूल मंगलाचरण
The Author’s Invocation
Two opening dohas honour the rasika assembly and the lineage whose lives form this garland.
तेई मंगल रूप, जिनको जस वर्णन करौं। परम्परा सु अनूप, रसिक सम्प्रदाय-रति कथा॥२॥
They themselves are forms of auspiciousness, and I shall tell their glory: the incomparable succession, the story of love in the Rasika tradition.