Sri Laxmi Narayana Aithal
In
the world, everyone
desires to have
Supreme Felicity (Paramananda)PaP; but,
he never tries
to have it;
he is caught
up by the
offensive pride of ‘me’
and ‘mine’ and
by the defects
of mind like – desire, anger,
greed, mistaking one
to other, arrogance,
jealousy, etc., and , as
the result of
his good and
bad works he
attains different bodies.
Thus, people suffer
in the pulley
of worldly life;
due to their
actions they obtain
agreeable and disagreeable
and accordingly they
are either elated
or depressed. Only
devotion to God
and no other
means helps to
cross such living
beings from this
difficulty; thus, the
Spiritual Guide Narada apprehending through the
scripture and experience
wants to preach
the Principle of
Devotion concisely in the
form of compilation
of Aphorisms on
Devotion and, hence, he
starts his scripture.
The following is the
first aphorism of
this scripture :-
A SOLEMN
DECLARATION IN THE BEGINNING
OF THE SCRIPTURE
अथातो भक्तिं व्याख्यास्यामः ।।1।।
ATHATHO
BHKTHI VYAKHYANAMAH
1.Now, therefore, (we)
explain devotion.
MEANING OF THE
ATHA WORD
