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Śivasaṃhitā 2.41

Dvitīyaḥ paṭalaḥ — Microcosm

Sanskrit text

यद्यत्सन्दृश्यते लोके सर्वं तत्कर्मसम्भवम्।

Transliteration

yadyatsandṛśyate loke sarvaṃ tatkarmasambhavam|

Translation

The Jiva that has accumulated an excess of good and virtuous actions receives a happy life; and in the world he gets pleasant and good things to enjoy, without any trouble.

Commentary

The central declaration is uncompromising: sarvaṃ tatkarmasambhavam, «all that is born of karma». The verse leaves no room for exceptions: the totality of worldly experience — pleasure, pain, fortune, adversity — is fruit of prior actions. It then presents the positive case: one who has accumulated virtuous merit receives a pleasant existence and obtains agreeable things without apparent effort.

Karmasambhavam is a bahuvrīhi compound analyzable as «that whose origin is karma» (karma + sambhava, from sam-bhū, «to arise together», «to originate»). Sandṛśyate (from sam-dṛś, «to be seen», «to appear») indicates we are speaking of the phenomenal world, of what manifests before perception. The ease with which the virtuous being obtains pleasant things is expressed by aklibena, «without fatigue», «without effort».

This verse establishes the positive pole of the karmic equation that the following verse will complete with the negative. In practical terms, the text implies that yogic discipline — by purifying actions and motivations — is itself an accumulation of virtuous karma that transforms the conditions of existence, not only in future lives but in the present one.