commentary and attributes almost the whole of it, as he openly states in the Preface to the Malayalam edition, even the naming of the title, "didhiti", meaning "throwing light", to Narayana Guru. He espeically states that the Guru made the comments first and these, when put on paper, were then corrected more than once by him. In the light of these circumstances, it would be safe to assume that the purport of these comments, though not the presented form, belongs to Narayana Guru himself.

In the beginning (i.e. at its upper limit which has to be distinguished together with other similar limits), there was non-existence. Posteriorly to this (in pure time), the Supreme Lord (Paramesvara) when creation was to begin, by His mere willing created all this (i.e. gave it a conceptual status different from.