Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 4: Knowledge and the Renouncing of Action

Bhagavad Gita 4.35

yajjñātvā na punarmohamevaṃ yāsyasi pāṇḍava | yena bhūtānyaśeṣeṇa drakṣyasyātmanyatho mayi ||

Knowing it, Arjuna, you will not fall into delusion like this again. By it you will see all beings, without exception, in the self, and then in me.

Modern context

This is what real knowledge does: it ends a certain kind of confusion for good. The confusion is the sense of separateness, the division of the world into 'mine' and 'not mine', 'us' and 'them'. One who sees truly finds all beings within the one self, and that self within the divine. This does not blur real differences. It removes the feeling that the other is alien. Fear and hostility lose much of their fuel when no one is wholly a stranger.