“When one perceives the varied states of beings as resting in the One, and their expansion (spreading forth) from that One alone, then one attains Brahman (brahma sampadyate).” The verse names the exact moment of realisation: not when one has amassed more facts, but when the very habit of separateness dissolves — when the mind stops carving the seamless into “this being and that being” and sees all diversity as the branching-out of a single ground. Brahman is not reached by travel; it is attained the instant the illusion of division falls (recall the dvandva-blindness of 7.27, here undone).