Bhagavad Gita 9.18
गतिर्भर्ता प्रभुः साक्षी निवासः शरणं सुहृत् | प्रभवः प्रलयः स्थानं निधानं बीजमव्ययम् ||
gatir bhartā prabhuḥ sākṣī nivāsaḥ śaraṇaṁ suhṛt | prabhavaḥ pralayaḥ sthānaṁ nidhānaṁ bījam avyayam ||
Translation
I am the goal, the sustainer, the lord, the witness, the dwelling, the refuge, the friend, the origin, the dissolution, the basis, the storehouse, and the imperishable seed.
Reflection
Which of these relations do you already address without naming it?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Nine
Twelve more names in a single verse. The goal one aims at, the one who sustains, the lord who orders, the witness who watches, the home one lives in, the refuge one runs to, the friend one trusts, the origin from which things come, the dissolution into which they go, the ground that holds them while they remain, the storehouse where their possibilities rest, the imperishable seed from which they sprout again. The list is meant to be heard, not analyzed. Each word picks up a relationship the listener already has with something or someone, and Krishna places Himself at the inner end of that relationship. There is no role of love or trust or work that is not, at its source, an addressing of Him.