This verse is directed towards arjuna, so this is meant for an enlightened person who is engaged in the world. Not that consciousness, his become a universe. It appears as this universe. There is no real universe apart from consciousness. This verse says that all the actions are also brahman. So how does that happen? That's also mentioned in this verse. The action which has been described there is a yaga ey. Have to imagine a vadic time fire sacrifice. You may say, there ah, but in dreams, the mind does not become in rocks or trees or people, t just imagination. Exactly. When you wake up, all if it is nothing but the
Swami Sarvapriyananda talks on Verse 24 from Chapter 4 of the Bhagavad Gita.