Khila Kanda. Adhyaya 5, Brahmana 4. Brahman as the real
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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 real alone is Brahman
That, truly, was this very thing: the real alone. Whoever knows this great, adorable, first-born being as the real, as Brahman, wins these worlds; and whatever stands against him is conquered and undone, for one who knows this great, adorable, first-born being thus, as the real, as Brahman. For the real is indeed Brahman.
That first reality was simply satya, the real. Anyone who knows this great, adorable, first-born being as the real and as Brahman wins all the worlds, and his enemy is overcome and brought to nothing. The real is indeed Brahman.