Yajnavalkya Kanda. Adhyaya 4, Brahmana 3. The self-luminous Self: waking, dream, and the light of man
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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 hawk folding its wings
Just as a hawk or a falcon, having flown about in the sky and grown weary, folds its wings and makes straight for its nest to come to rest, so does this person hasten to that state where, fallen asleep, he desires no desire at all and sees no dream at all.
As a hawk or eagle, tired from wheeling about the sky, draws in its wings and heads straight for its nest to settle, so the self, weary of the waking and dream worlds, rushes toward the state of deep, dreamless sleep, where it craves nothing and sees no dream. That nest is its resting place in its own being.
In the commentaries
Sankara reads the homing bird as the self's natural movement toward deep sleep, where desire and dream both cease: this is a daily, partial return to its own quiet nature, foreshadowing the final rest in Brahman where no second object remains to be wanted or seen.