The first epilogue verse returns to Kṣemarāja’s image of the ocean of Awareness. Body, vital energy, and pleasure confine a person as long as they define that person’s entire identity. The same world can be experienced as foam within encompassing consciousness.

The verse calls one who recognises this Śiva himself. This is a statement within the nondual teaching about the recognised nature of the Self. The verse follows the exposition of Sūtra 20 and forms the first part of the epilogue; it is not an additional Sūtra.

The second epilogue verse returns to the audience identified in the prologue. Here, śaktipāta, the descent of power, denotes an awakening proceeding from Śiva. It is already assumed to have occurred in the people addressed.

Their lack of training concerns demanding philosophical argument. Īśvarapratyabhijñā refers to Utpaladeva’s extensive work on Recognition. The present instruction is intended to make its teaching accessible. In the source, this verse is followed by the colophon naming Kṣemarāja and the closing blessing śubham astu.

Śubham astu follows the two epilogue verses and the colophon. This conventional colophonic benediction wishes that there be auspiciousness or well-being. It belongs to the transmitted frame but is neither an additional Sūtra nor, in the strict sense, a closing mantra.