In the first three aspects of the self which we talked about, in each aspect, waking, dreaming and deep sleep there is a pare. What is the pare? You the knower and the world that you know. So it's not an experience that I know deep sleep. It's all merged into sort of lumped into a oneness. The subject and object are not clearly divided in deep sleep. But still you can conceive of a pare - what does the knower know? A merged universe. We actually do not experience it that way but just for symmetry let's put it this way. That you are there as the knower except that you do not have any
Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches one of the shortest and most profound upanishads accompanied by Gaudapada's Karika. This lecture covers Mantra 7 (Part 2).