Śivasaṃhitā 2.39

This verse closes an argumentative arc: having described the body as a cosmos (brahmāṇḍa) and the jīva as a karmic agent, the text now asserts that all human experience — pleasure and pain without exception — is rooted in karma. This is a declaration of total causality: nothing in lived experience is arbitrary or accidental; everything is the fruit of prior action ripening in the present moment.

The epithet sarvagaḥ (“omnipresent,” “going everywhere”) applied to the jīva creates philosophical tension: if the individual self is omnipresent, why does it appear limited? The implicit answer is that omnipresence is its essential nature, while limitation is its apparent condition, produced by identification with the body-cosmos and the karmas inhabiting it. This tension drives the entire soteriological project of the text.

This verse finds direct parallels in the doctrine of karmaphala (“fruit of action”) found in the Bhagavadgītā and Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras. However, the Śivasaṃhitā contextualizes it within tantric subtle anatomy, suggesting that liberation from the karmic cycle does not occur abstractly but precisely through working with the subtle body described throughout this chapter — making the body itself the instrument of its own transcendence.