Bhagavatapurana 5.18.20

5.18.20

sa vai patiḥ syād akutobhayaḥ svayaṃ samantataḥ pāti bhayāturaṃ janam /
sa eka evetarathā mitho bhayaṃ naivātmalābhād adhi manyate param //

20. “He alone could indeed be the Lord, who, being himself absolutely above fear, could on all sides protect the other beings cast in anxious fear, and that Thou alone art. Otherwise (there being no independence for one whose happiness rests in another’s hands), if there be more than one absolute master there would be occasion for mutual fear. For one cannot think of anything more than self-existence.