There is only one true subject which is consciousness. And that cannot be used as an example because that's the one we're trying to understand. How to explain something for which there is no language? Language is meant for the universe. But how will you express it through language, where language cannot work? You can only indicate it. Examples are a good way but they tend to mislead also. All these examples can only point. They can be understood or misunderstood. The teacher has to rule out those misunderstandings. That turium, that pure consciousness somehow, we know not how, it realizes itself by itself. I was reading in the Gospel, I wish I could read out that line.
Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches one of the shortest and most profound upanishads accompanied by Gaudapada's Karika. This lecture covers Karika 22-23 and Mantra 12.