Śivasaṃhitā 1.96

The final reabsorption of the jīva into the Absolute as an inevitable destiny—and as the goal of yoga. If the cycle of saṃsāra has a final point, it is the dissolution of the illusion of separation and the recognition of identity with Parambrahma. It is not destruction but return: like the wave that returns to the ocean without being lost, the jīva is reabsorbed into the Consciousness it always was.

Bhogamandira (temple of enjoyment and suffering, abode of karmic experience) describes the body with an architectural image: it is the place where the jīva comes to experience what karma has prepared. Parambrahma (the Supreme Brahman, the highest Absolute) is the final destination: layaṃ yāti (goes toward dissolution, is absorbed) when the karmic experience is complete. This process can last many incarnations or can be radically accelerated through yoga.

The image of the body as a ‘temple’—sacred space where the rites of karma are performed—transforms the perspective on suffering. It is not absurd or arbitrary: it has a function in the process of realization. The Śivasaṃhitā closes this cosmological and karmic summary to open the path toward practice: since the body is the temple where the jīva experiences and can be liberated, the following chapters will transform it into the laboratory of yoga.