However, finite division of space is where time begins, and the division of time is where all beings were first created. It was believed that there are connections between the physical and the psychological worlds, and an equivalence existed between the outer cosmos and the inner cosmos of the individual. This is expressed in the famous sentenceyat pinde tad brahmnde, "as in the body so in the universe".

The ancient Indians mapped out the outer world or the universe at an altar where Yajurveda listed multiples of ten that reached ten