Khila Kanda. Adhyaya 5, Brahmana 9. The fire in man that cooks the food
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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 fire that cooks the food
This fire that is within a person, by which the food that is eaten is cooked, is Vaisvanara. This is its sound, which one hears by closing the ears thus. When a person is about to depart, he no longer hears this sound.
The warmth inside the body that digests the food you eat is the universal fire called Vaisvanara. You can hear its sound by stopping your ears. When someone is near death, that sound can no longer be heard.