Śivasaṃhitā 3.99

The third chapter’s final verse is a coda of extraordinary density: two affirmations condensing tantric yoga’s complete horizon into a single verse of barely ten syllables. Na punarāvṛttih — no return — is the technical definition of liberation in Indian philosophy: the state from which there is no vṛtti (return, turn) back toward the saṃsāra cycle. Not nirvāṇa as extinction but the irreversibility of a crossed threshold.

Modate sasurairapi — rejoices even with the gods — describes the post-liberation state with the image of shared joy. The liberated yogin does not dissolve into an impersonal abstraction: they participate in the cosmic celebration that the sura (the gods, the luminous ones) maintain in the most refined planes of existence. «Even» (api) suggests that the company of the gods is a secondary consequence of the yogin’s achievement, not their final goal.

The Śivasaṃhitā’s third paṭala has systematically built the complete sādhana map: from basic breath regulation to advanced contemplation, from dietary restrictions to the most extraordinary siddhis, from the four prāṇāyāma stages to the four fundamental postures. The final verse closes the arc with the simplest and most complete image: the yogin who does not return, who rejoices. Freedom as joy. Yoga as celebration of what was always already here.