Śivasaṃhitā 5.255

The Śiva-saṃhitā’s final verse is technically incomplete—the sentence’s main verb never arrives—and this opening is the text’s deepest seal. After five chapters of exhaustive instruction, the text concludes with an unfinished sentence. The conclusion is in the practitioner’s hands: the gṛhastha who has seen the signs of siddhi «then…»—and here the text falls silent, leaving each reader to complete the sentence from their own experience.

Gehe sthitvā = having lived in the house (gehe = in the home, sthitvā = having remained), putra-dāra-ādi-pūrṇaḥ = full of son, wife and so on (pūrṇa = full, complete), saṅgaṃ tyaktvā = having abandoned saṅga, antare = internally, yoga-mārge = on the yoga path, siddha-cihna = sign of siddhi (cihna = mark, sign, indicator), vīkṣya = having seen.

The unfinished sentence at the text’s end is a sophisticated literary device that classical Sanskrit treatises use when pointing to a conclusion belonging to living experience that cannot be verbalized. The Śiva-saṃhitā has given everything a text can give: the map, the method, the guarantees. The territory—the liberation of the gṛhastha who has seen the signs of siddhi—can only be traversed. No words can substitute that traversal.