Verse 45

भूयः स्यात्प्रतिमीलनम्

In plain words

There is again and again.

The commentators

Śivasūtra with Kṣemarāja's Vimarśinī

एवमीदृशस्य योगफलं दर्शयन् प्रकरणमुपसंहरति - भूयः स्यात्प्रतिमीलनम् ॥ ४५ ॥ चैतन्यात्मनः स्वरूपात् उदितस्य अस्य विश्वस्य भूयः पुनः विगलितभेदसंस्कारात्मना बाहुल्येन च प्रतिमीलनम् चैतन्याभिमुख्येन निमीलनं पुनरपि चैतन्यात्मस्वस्वरूपोन्मीलनरूपं परयोगाभिनिविष्टस्य योगिनो भवति । तदुक्तं श्रीस्वच्छन्दे उन्मनापरतो देवि तत्रात्मानं नियोजयेत् । तस्मिन्युक्तस्ततो ह्यात्मा तन्मयश्च प्रजायते ॥ इति । तथा च उद्बोधितो यथा वह्निर्निर्मलोऽतीव भास्वरः । न भूयः प्रविशेत्काष्ठे तथात्माध्वन उद्धृतः ॥ मलकर्मकलाद्यैस्तु निर्मलो विगतक्लमः । तत्रस्थोऽपि न बाध्येत यतोऽतीव सुनिर्मलः ॥ इति । भूयः स्यादित्यभिदधतोऽयमाशयः यत् शिवत्वमस्य योगिनो न अपूर्वम् अपि तु स्वभाव एव केवलं मायाशक्त्युत्थापितस्वविकल्पदौरात्म्यात् भासमानमपि तत् नायं प्रत्यवम्रष्टुं क्षमः इत्यस्य उक्तोपायप्रदर्शनक्रमेण तदेव अभिव्यज्यते इति शिवम् ॥ ४५ ॥

In plain words

Once more there would be pratimīlana. Showing in this way the fruit of yoga for such a one, he brings the work to a close: Of this universe, arisen from one's own nature which is consciousness, there is once more, and in full measure, through the melting away of the latent impressions of difference, pratimīlana: a closing of the eyes, turned towards consciousness, and also an opening of the eyes, whose form is the opening of one's own nature as consciousness. This comes to the yogin intent on the supreme yoga. As the Svacchanda says: "Beyond unmanā, O Devī, let him join the self there; joined to that, the self then becomes one with it." And so too: "As a fire, roused, stainless, exceedingly bright, does not enter the wood again, so the self lifted up from the path, stainless of mala, karma, kalā and the rest, free of weariness, even abiding there, would not be hindered, for it is exceedingly stainless." In saying "Once more there would be", the intent is this: Śivahood is nothing new for this yogin, but his very nature. Only, although it is shining, he is not able to recognise it, because of the perversity of his own thought-constructs, raised up by the power of māyā; and for him that very Śivahood is made manifest by the sequence of showing the means described. All is auspicious.