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The Most Confidential Knowledge
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we create different relationships with different living entities who are nothing but Kṛṣṇa’s marginal energy, but under the creation of  prakṛti  some of them appear as our father, mother, grandfather, creator, etc., but actually they are parts and parcels of Kṛṣṇa. As such, these living entities who appear to be our father, mother, etc., are nothing but Kṛṣṇa. In this verse the word  dhātā  means creator. Not only are our father and mother parts and parcels of Kṛṣṇa, but their creator, grandmother, and grandfather, etc., are also Kṛṣṇa. Actually any living entity, being part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa, is Kṛṣṇa. All the  Vedas , therefore, aim only toward Kṛṣṇa. Whatever we want to know through the  Vedas  is but a progressive step to understand Kṛṣṇa. That subject matter which helps us purify our constitutional position is especially Kṛṣṇa. Similarly, the living entity who is inquisitive to understand all Vedic principles is also part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa and as such is also Kṛṣṇa. In all the Vedic  mantras  the word  om , called  praṇava , is a transcendental sound vibration and is also Kṛṣṇa. And because in all the hymns of the four  Vedas ,  Sāma ,  Yajur ,  Rg  and  Atharva , the  praṇava  or  omkāra  is very prominent, it is understood to be Kṛṣṇa.
TEXT 18
गतिर्भर्ता प्रभुः साक्षी निवासः शरणं सुहृत् ।  
 प्रभवः प्रलयः स्थानं निधानं बीजमव्ययम् ॥१८॥
gatir bhartā prabhuḥ sākṣī nivāsaḥ śaraṇaṁ suhṛt prabhavaḥ pralayaḥ sthānaṁ nidhānaṁ bījam avyayam
gatiḥ —goal;  bhartā —sustainer;  prabhuḥ —Lord;  sākṣī —witness;  nivāsaḥ —abode;  śaraṇam —refuge;  suhṛt —most intimate friend;  prabhavaḥ —creation;  pralayaḥ —dissolution;  sthānam —ground;  nidhānam —resting place;  bījam —seed;  avyayam —imperishable.
TRANSLATION
I am the goal, the sustainer, the master, the witness, the abode, the refuge and the most dear friend. I am the creation and the annihilation, the basis of everything, the resting place and the eternal seed.