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 the quarters
These quarters are honey to all beings, and all beings are honey to these quarters. The shining, immortal person who is in these quarters, and the shining, immortal person who in the body belongs to hearing and to the echo: this very one is that which is this Self. This is the immortal, this is Brahman, this is the All.
The directions and all beings nourish one another; each is sweetness to the other. The radiant, deathless person in the quarters and the radiant, deathless person present in the body as the power of hearing and the echo (srautra, pratisrutka) 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 quarters with the ear and its echoing reply; the deathless person in the directions and the deathless person behind hearing are the one Self, immortal, Brahman, the All.