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## First Chapter
**This entire [text] is a ladder to the attainment of the state of a Siddha, and is full of bliss. Therefore, O noble ones, with your minds fixed, listen.** (101)
**[This is a] Shārdūlavikrīḍita [verse]**
**Those who remember the great sages like Padma, etc., and with their minds free from worldly attachments, experience supreme joy. The sins accumulated for a long time, are shattered into thousands of pieces. What to say of those who listen to the completely pure and bright character of [these sages]?** (102)
**This [character] was performed by those [sages] and this [sinful] karma was destroyed by them. Therefore, O wise and intelligent people, serve this supremely pure character, which was served by the ancient sages, to the best of your ability. When the right path is revealed by the sun, who with good vision will stumble?** (103)
**Thus ends the first chapter of the Padma-charita, composed by the Acharya Ravishena, which is known as the Ārṣa [tradition] and which outlines the topics to be discussed.**
**Footnotes:**
1. Moksha (liberation)
2. This (text)
3. Everywhere
4. The right path revealed by the sun
**[End of Chapter]**