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 cart creaking under its load
Just as a cart, heavily loaded, goes creaking along, so does this bodily self, mounted by the Self that knows, go creaking along, when one comes to breathe with difficulty.
As an overloaded cart moves along groaning under its burden, so the self that is in the body, presided over by the all-knowing Self, moves along groaning when a person's breathing grows labored. This describes the onset of dying, when the body strains and the breath comes hard.