Yajnavalkya Kanda. Adhyaya 4, Brahmana 5. Yajnavalkya and Maitreyi, again
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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.
I speak nothing bewildering
Then Maitreyi said, "Here, venerable sir, you have thrown me into utter confusion. Indeed, I do not understand this at all." He said, "Surely I am saying nothing confusing. This Self, Maitreyi, is imperishable; its nature is never to be destroyed."
Maitreyi said, "Sir, here you have bewildered me completely; I simply cannot understand how, if the Self is pure consciousness, there is no consciousness after death." Yajnavalkya answered, "I am saying nothing bewildering. This Self is indestructible (avinasi); by its very nature it can never be annihilated. What ends is only the particular knowing that depends on the body and organs."
In the commentaries
Sankara reads Maitreyi's protest as the natural confusion of mistaking the loss of particular cognition for the loss of the Self, which Yajnavalkya removes by declaring the Self imperishable and of a nature that cannot be destroyed.