Response:

Reality is by nature self-conscious, self-sufficient, and self-knowing. 

It is not dependent upon anyone or anything to know itself.  

But because our essential nature is pure awareness as well, it is not inaccurate to say that we are that Source knowing itself. 

It’s not that God is expanding in time or space, by our self-realization, but when the light of awareness comes to know its individuality as the universe, that knowingness as if, expands to fill the cosmos.

Love,

Deepak