Śivasaṃhitā 3.98

Anenaiva vidhānena — by this very method — is the final bridge between the four postures taught and complete freedom. The pronoun eva (precisely, exactly) emphasizes that there is no other path: this system of postures + prāṇāyāma + contemplation + secrecy is the complete method. The yogīndra (supreme lord of yogins) who applies it attains sovereignty in the avanimaṇḍala — the circle of the earth, the manifested world.

Avanimaṇḍala (the circle or disk of the earth) is the cosmos as experienced from the embodied human perspective. The yogin who masters this method does not transcend the world — they inhabit it with sovereign freedom. This distinction between flight-from-world transcendence and sovereignty-within-the-world is one of tantric yoga’s most characteristic contributions compared to more abstract Advaita Vedānta: liberation occurs in the body and in the world, not despite them.

The Śivasaṃhitā’s third chapter closes its thematic arc here: it began with nāḍī purification through basic prāṇāyāma, traversed the four stages of advanced prāṇāyāma, described powers and siddhis, presented khecarī and dhāraṇā techniques, and culminates with four postures that are the entire edifice’s bodily foundation. A complete treatise on tantric yoga compressed into a single chapter.