SS 3.35–3.37: Vom Karma zur Schöpfung
SS 3.35–3.37: Vom Karma zur Schöpfung

Śiva Sūtra 3.35–3.37: Acting from Direct Experience

Delusion makes the self a bound agent. When difference is concealed, another creative power of action opens from direct experience.

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Śiva Sūtra 3.35
मोहप्रतिसंहतस्तु कर्मात्मा ||3.35||
moha-pratisaṃhatas tu karmātmā ||3.35|| Analysis ▾ Analysis ▴
moha
tatpuruṣa-compound instrumental case
substantive masculine
Moha, delusion
pratisaṃhataḥ
nominative singular masculine past participle passive
previx
previx
verbal root
contracted, condensed
tu
particle
but, however
karma
tatpuruṣa-compound genitive
substantive neuter
karma, action
ātmā
nominative singular
substantive masculine
self, essence
One who, however (tu), is contracted by delusion (moha-pratisaṃhataḥ | nom sg m) [has] action as his nature (karma-ātmā | nom sg).
Dr. Ronald Steiner - 2026 - historically literal
Under delusion, however, the self contracts and defines itself through its actions.
Dr. Ronald Steiner - 2026 - modern transfer

Kṣemarāja explains in the Vimarśinī: While delusion remains condensed, a person experiences himself as an agent driven by lack, duty, fear, or desire.

Kṣemarāja's Śivasūtravimarśinī

The Vārttika explains: Moha is non-recognition of the self.

Bhāskara's Śivasūtravārttika
Śiva Sūtra 3.36
भेदतिरस्कारे सर्गान्तरकर्मत्वम् ||3.36||
bheda-tiraskāre sargāntara-karmatvam ||3.36|| Analysis ▾ Analysis ▴
bheda
tatpuruṣa-compound genitive
substantive masculine
difference, separation
tiraskāre
lokative absolutus singular
substantive masculine
when separation is concealed or suppressed
sarga
tatpuruṣa-compound genitive
substantive masculine
creation
antara
karmadhāraya-compound
adjective
other, further
karmatvam
nominative singular
substantive neuter
suffix
state of agency, capacity for action
When separation is suppressed (bheda-tiraskāre | loc absl sg), [there arises] the capacity for another creation (sarga-antara-karmatvam | nom sg).
Dr. Ronald Steiner - 2026 - historically literal
When separation recedes, action becomes free creation.
Dr. Ronald Steiner - 2026 - modern transfer

Kṣemarāja explains in the Vimarśinī: When the divisive view is suppressed, another mode of creation opens.

Kṣemarāja's Śivasūtravimarśinī

The Vārttika explains: When the limited I formed from body, Prāṇa, and the contraction of Kalā recedes through its own illumination, the yogin's greater identity with Mantra and Mantreśa appears.

Bhāskara's Śivasūtravārttika
Śiva Sūtra 3.37
करणशक्तिः स्वतो ऽनुभवात् ||3.37||
karaṇa-śaktiḥ svato 'nubhavāt ||3.37|| Analysis ▾ Analysis ▴
karaṇa
tatpuruṣa-compound genitive
substantive neuter
producing, action, means
śaktiḥ
nominative singular
substantive feminine
power, Śakti
svataḥ
adverb
from itself, spontaneously
anubhavāt
ablative singular
substantive masculine
from experience, on the basis of experience
The power of producing (karaṇa-śaktiḥ | nom sg) [arises] spontaneously (svataḥ | adv) from experience (anubhavāt | abl sg).
Dr. Ronald Steiner - 2026 - historically literal
This creative power arises spontaneously from direct experience.
Dr. Ronald Steiner - 2026 - modern transfer

Kṣemarāja explains in the Vimarśinī: True creative power arises not from theory but from direct experience of one's own awareness.

Kṣemarāja's Śivasūtravimarśinī

The Vārttika explains: Dream and imagination already show that awareness produces whole fields of experience with subject and object.

Bhāskara's Śivasūtravārttika

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