Madhu Kanda. Adhyaya 2, Brahmana 5. The honey: the Self shining in all beings
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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.
Honey in humankind
This human kind is honey to all beings, and all beings are honey to this human kind. The shining, immortal person who is in this human kind, and the shining, immortal person who in the body is human: this very one is that which is this Self. This is the immortal, this is Brahman, this is the All.
Humankind (manusa) and all beings nourish one another; each is sweetness to the other. The radiant, deathless person present in the human species at large and the radiant, deathless person present in one's own human body are one and the same, and that one is the Self. That Self is the immortal, is Brahman, is everything.
In the commentaries
Sankara reads the human species as one of the particular forms through which dharma and truth operate, knowable both outwardly as the kind and inwardly as one's own body; the deathless person in each is the one Self, immortal, Brahman, the All.