Śivasaṃhitā 4.90

The rhetorical question kiṃ na sidhyati bhūtale culminates the doctrinal trilogy on bindu with the same figure that has appeared three times in the chapter. This fourth appearance is not redundant but cumulative: each occurrence adds the weight of a complete section of verified practice. The omnipotence promised at the chapter’s end is the sum of all the practices described from verse 1 onward.

Siddhe bindau — ‘when the bindu has been perfected, success achieved’ — uses siddha in its most precise technical sense: not simply controlled but perfected, transmuted in its essential nature. The siddha bindu is not merely retained semen but creative energy completely sublimated into ojas, the refined vital potential constituting the foundation of all supranormal powers.

Matsāmya — ‘likeness to me, equality with my glory’ — is the highest promise of the Śivasaṃhitā: the practitioner who perfects bindu obtains the same glory as Śiva. In Śaiva Siddhānta philosophy, this is called śiva-sāyujya (union with Śiva), while in the non-dualism of Pratyabhijñā it is called śiva-svarūpa-prāpti (attainment of Śiva’s essential nature). Both formulations point to the same thing: the recognized identity between the individual Ātman and the universal Paramātman.