Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 7: Knowledge and Realization
Bhagavad Gita 7.6
एतद्योनीनि भूतानि सर्वाणीत्युपधारय ।
अहं कृत्स्नस्य जगतः प्रभवः प्रलयस्तथा ॥
etadyonīni bhūtāni sarvāṇītyupadhāraya | ahaṃ kṛtsnasya jagataḥ prabhavaḥ pralayastathā ||
Understand that all beings have their source in these two. I am the origin of the whole universe, and its dissolution as well.
Modern context
Every being is made of these two natures together: matter and consciousness, body and life. And both, Krishna says, come from him, who is the beginning and the end of the whole universe. The picture is not of a maker standing outside his work, like a potter beside a pot. It is closer to the ocean and its waves. The waves rise from the ocean and return to it, and they were never anything but ocean.