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.
Where there seems a second
For where there is something else, as it were, there one might see another, one might smell another, one might taste another, one might speak to another, one might hear another, one might think of another, one might touch another, one might know another.
Wherever there appears to be a second thing, distinct from oneself, there one can see, smell, taste, speak to, hear, think of, touch, or know that other. All ordinary perception and knowledge depend on this apparent split into knower and a separate known. It belongs only to the state where duality seems to be, not to the self's own undivided being.
In the commentaries
Sankara reads this as defining the very condition of duality: all the operations of the senses and mind require an "other," so they belong to ignorance, where a second thing seems to exist; this sets up the contrast with the next mantra, where that otherness is gone.