What is the meaning of Brahma vit Brahmaiva bhavati from Veda?

(A satsaṅga was done on 27-06-2021 in view of the occasion of marriage of Chi. Veena Datta and it is recorded below.)

Q. Veda says that the knower of Brahman (God) becomes Brahman (Brahma vit Brahmaiva bhavati). What is the meaning of this?

Swāmi replied: The reverse of the actual meaning is taken by people, who say that if you know that you are God, you will become God. This is the most foolish statement. If an unemployed person knows that he is a peon in a government office, will he become the government peon? Even the post of a peon is not achieved by this path and can the ultimate God be achieved by this path? The meaning of this statement is that the knower of Brahman (Brahma vit) is Brahman Himself (Brahmaiva). The word bhavati means the verb, which is ‘is’. This means that anybody (soul) can’t know Brahman because Brahman is the ultimate Absolute unimaginable God. The soul is a part of imaginable creation (parā prakṛti, which means the greatest part of the creation called as prakṛti) and can never even understand the unimaginable God. By any effort, the soul can never become unimaginable God, which means that the soul can never ascend to become God. Only God can descend (avatāra) to become a human being, but, a human being can never ascend to become God. In the formation of human incarnation, it is the will of God and it is not the effort of the soul.

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