Khila Kanda. Adhyaya 5, Brahmana 13. The uktha, the yajus, the saman, the ksatra
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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.
Breath joins all beings together
The yajus. The vital breath, truly, is the yajus, for in the breath all these beings are joined together. For the one who knows this all beings are joined together for his pre-eminence. He who knows this thus wins union with the yajus and a dwelling in the same world as the yajus.
The breath is the yajus because in it all beings are bound together (yuj, to join); nothing has the strength to unite with another without life. One who meditates on it this way has all beings unite to raise him to the first place, and comes to share the world of the yajus.