Verse 1

कुपितस्यासतोऽप्यस्य प्रेक्षामात्रविनाशिनः ।अविद्याविततव्याधेरौषधं श्रृणु राघव

In plain words

Śrī Vasiṣṭha said: Listen, Rāghava, to the medicine for this disease, spread wide as avidyā — aggravated though it is, and unreal, and destroyed by mere examination of it.