Verse 36

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The egg, and the Person who breaks it· Verses 32–36

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Best 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, then, urged on by the Bhagavan's power, they joined with one another, and taking up both being and non-being, they created that. At 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. That 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.

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