Samkhya Karika 59

रङ्गस्य दर्शयित्वा निवर्तते नर्तकी यथा नृत्यात् ।
पुरुषस्य तथाऽऽत्मानं प्रकाश्य विनिवर्तते प्रकृतिः ॥ ५९ ॥

raṅgasya darśayitvā nivartate nartakī yathā nṛtyāt ।
puruṣasya tathā”tmānaṁ prakāśya vinivartate prakṛtiḥ ॥ 59 ॥

Raṅgasya=stage performance; darśayitvā=having exhibited; nivartate=withdraws; nartakī=dancer (female); yathā=just as; nṛtyāt=from dancing; puruṣasya=of the Purusha; tathā=in the same manner; ātmānam=(her)self; prakāśya=having exhibited; vinivartate=ceases to function; prakṛtiḥ=Prakriti

Just as a dancer, having exhibited her skills to the audience, concludes her dance, so also does Prakriti cease to function after having exhibited herself to Purusha.

Just like the previous karika, this karika also offers an analogy drawn from our day-to-day life to understand the role of Prakriti. A dancer, having completed her performance for the audience, withdraws to the back stage, not to be seen by the audience. In the same manner, prakriti, after having “shown” herself to Purusha, withdraws herself as there is no more reason for purusha to “see” her. In essence, the purusha, as an observer, has been watching the prakriti as she has offered both experience and liberation to Purusha. Prakriti has done that through the functioning of all the 23 elements. Once liberation, which is the realization that Purusha and Prakriti are separate, takes place, there is no more role to be played by Prakriti for this particular Purusha.

Patanjali, in the Yoga Sutras makes a similar statement in sutra 2.22¹:
Although it (Prakriti) becomes non-existent for him (Purusha) whose purpose has been fulfilled, it continues to exist for others (Purusha) on account of being common to all the Purushas. (sutra 2.22)

[Note 1] कृतार्थं प्रति नष्टमप्यनष्टं तदन्यसाधारणत्वात्॥२२॥ kr̥tārthaṁ prati naṣṭaṁ-apy-anaṣṭaṁ tadanya sādhāraṇatvāt ॥2.22॥

Although it (Prakriti) becomes non-existent for him (Purusha) whose purpose has been fulfilled, it continues to exist for others (Purusha) on account of being common to all the Purushas. (sutra 2.22)