Verse 32

³²Best of the knowers of Brahman, when these principles, the elements and the senses and the mind and the strands, stood apart from one another and could not make the dwelling that would house them, ³³then, urged on by the Bhagavan's power, they joined with one another, and taking up both being and non-being, they created that. ³⁴At the end of a thousand groups of years, that egg lay upon the water; and the living one, standing in time and action and nature, made the lifeless thing live. ³⁵That same Person then broke through the egg and came out, with a thousand thighs and feet and arms and eyes, a thousand faces and a thousand heads.

³⁶By whose limbs the thoughtful here reckon the worlds: the seven below counted from the waist downward, and the seven above from the loins upward.