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.
Thundercloud, and the voice within
This thundercloud is honey to all beings, and all beings are honey to this thundercloud. The shining, immortal person who is in this thundercloud, and the shining, immortal person who in the body belongs to sound and to the voice: this very one is that which is this Self. This is the immortal, this is Brahman, this is the All.
The thundercloud and all beings nourish one another; each is sweetness to the other. The radiant, deathless person in the thundercloud and the radiant, deathless person present in the body as sound and tone (sabda, sauvara) are one and the same, and that one is the Self. That Self is the immortal, is Brahman, is everything.
In the commentaries
Sankara correlates the thundering cloud with sound and the voice in the body; the deathless person in the storm and the deathless person behind vocal sound are the single Self, immortal, Brahman, the All.