Om. Salutation to the supreme guru Gorakṣanāth.

Om. Salutación al guru supremo Gorakṣanāth.

The text opens with an invocation to Gorakṣanāth, legendary master of the Nātha lineage, to whom this treatise is attributed. The reverence to the parama-guru (guru supremo) establece la continuidad del linaje antes de exponer la enseñanza.