Madhu Kanda. Adhyaya 2, Brahmana 3. The two forms of Brahman: neti, neti
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Each mantra is given four ways: the Sanskrit in its Devanagari script, the same sounds in Roman letters, an English translation set in our own voice, and then the line once more in plain words, for a first and unhurried reading.
Not every passage is opened to the same depth. A few central mantras carry the full cross-school commentary, where the schools are set side by side. The rest are kept here whole and faithful, set in their place but not expounded, so the book stays entire and nothing is dropped for being thought minor.
Where the schools read a line differently, the difference is kept open. None is crowned and none is corrected. Each is met on its own terms, and where they contradict, the contradiction is left standing for you to sit with.
The two forms of Brahman
Brahman has two forms, and only two. There is the formed and the formless; the mortal and the immortal; the fixed and the moving; the actual and the yonder.
Brahman appears under two forms, and no more than two: the embodied with shape (murta) and the shapeless (amurta); what dies and what does not die; what stands still and what flows on; what is here and definite (sat) and what is beyond and unseen (tya).
In the commentaries
Sankara: the formless supreme Brahman is brought within reach of thought only through these two superimposed forms; the four pairs are facets of the one form-formless distinction, each pair implying the rest.