Brahman

 Brahman or atman is not an object, given object requires a subject, and as a subject I am, I cannot be object. However brahman can be truth of subject, I am truth of subject. In deep sleep I am just pure consciousness, wherein there is no subject knowing anything, its only in waking state I come to say, I slept well, I have memory that there is no subject object experience, I am pure awareness. I remain that pure awareness always, I always know both known and unknown object. For any new knowledge I need a knower I, that is subject, and there is object, I am neither subject nor object. Subject IS. Object IS. Whenever an object is there is also a subject. A knower. Whenever knower is , there is a known object. Sakshi I is, and there is a world in either manifest or unmanifest state that I am aware of. 

I the knower am satyam, as in there is no subject object duality in my the total. The subject object duality is due to unmanifest and manifest kshetra, that has no reality of its own. I am the reality that appears as subejct object as though. Like in a dream. 

I alone appear as both knower and objects in a dream, but I transcend the dream as a waker. Same way the waking state also I transcend as the sleeper. The sleeping state I transcend as the reality of the sleeper.

The waking state gains its existence , the sleeping and the dream also gains its existence from me. 

See in the all three states, invariable sakshi is satyam. In waking state we call the very same as waker, dreamer, sleeper, and pervades the three states as satyam. On its own, it is free from all three states and the status as experiencer of the three states.