अहमात्मा गुडाकेश सर्वभूताशयस्थितः। अहमादिश्च मध्यं च भूतानामन्त एव च।।10.20।।
aham ātmā guḍākeśha sarva-bhūtāśhaya-sthitaḥ aham ādiśh cha madhyaṁ cha bhūtānām anta eva cha
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A Reading - Rantideb
Why: Krishna is the Self dwelling in all beings, the beginning, middle, and end of all beings, again returning to the foundational claim before launching into the long list of specific manifestations that follows.
In life: before diving into a long list of specific examples of something's importance, it helps to first restate the underlying principle they're all meant to illustrate.
Teaching: when giving someone a long list of examples to make a point, anchor the list with the underlying principle first, the way this verse does, so the examples land as illustrations rather than an undifferentiated pile.