Sarvadarshanasangraha 14.46

14.46

nanu puruṣārthanibandhanā bhavatu prakṛteḥ pravṛttiḥ/ nivṛttis tu katham upapadyata iti cet — ucyate/ yathā bhartrā dṛṣṭadoṣā svairiṇī bhartāraṃ punar nopaiti yathā vā kṛtaprayojanā nartakī nivartate tathā prakṛtir api/ yathoktam:

"Well, I grant that Nature's activity may take place for the good of the soul, but how do you account for its ceasing to act?" I reply, that as a wilful woman whose faults have once been seen by her husband does not return to him, or as an actress, having performed her part, retires from the stage, so too does Nature desist. Thus it is said in the Kārikā (§ 59)—