Verse 1

एवं जीवाश्चितो भावा भवभावनयोहिताः ।ब्रह्मणः कल्पिताकाराल्लक्षशोऽप्यथ कोटिशः

In plain words

Thus jīvas are states of cit, conceived through the imagining of becoming, arising from Brahman whose form is imagined — by hundreds of thousands, and then by tens of millions.