When he sees the separate existence of all beings inherent in the One, and their expansion from That alone, he then becomes Brahman.

About this quote

This verse comes from Chapter 13 of the Bhagavad Gita, Kshetra Kshetrajna Vibhaga Yoga (The Field and its Knower) — the analysis of body and spirit: the field of experience, the knower who witnesses it, and the light beyond darkness dwelling in every heart.

The Bhagavad Gita — ‘the Song of the Lord’ — is the dialogue between Krishna and the warrior Arjuna set within the Mahabharata, and one of the most influential spiritual texts ever composed. English translation by Swami Swarupananda (1909), a public-domain rendering from the Sanskrit; the exact chapter and verse are cited with this quote.