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.
Fire, and the person within it
This fire is honey to all beings, and all beings are honey to this fire. The shining, immortal person who is in this fire, and the shining, immortal person who in the body is made of speech: this very one is that which is this Self. This is the immortal, this is Brahman, this is the All.
Fire and all beings nourish one another; each is sweetness to the other. The radiant, deathless person in fire and the radiant, deathless person present in the body as the organ of speech (vanmaya) are one and the same, and that one is the Self. That Self is the immortal, is Brahman, is everything.
In the commentaries
Sankara pairs the cosmic fire with its bodily counterpart, the organ of speech; the deathless person in each is the single Self, so the macrocosm and the body answer to one another and resolve into the immortal Brahman, the All.