Verse 1

कदाचिदथ मार्गेण तेन कैलासवासिनीम् ।अहं स्नातुमदृश्यात्मा व्योमवीथीगतोऽगमम्

In plain words

Śrī Vasiṣṭha said: Once, then, by that path, I went -- my very self unseen, moving along the highway of the sky -- toward her who dwells on Kailāsa, to bathe.