Khila Kanda. Adhyaya 6, Brahmana 1. The contest of the organs: the vital breath is greatest
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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.
In the ear, all the Vedas
He who knows attainment, to him comes whatever object he desires. The ear is indeed attainment, for in the ear all these Vedas are gathered together. To him comes whatever object he desires, who knows this.
Whoever knows attainment (sampad) gains whatever object he longs for. The ear (srotra) is that attainment, for all the Vedas are gathered in the ear, the organ by which they are heard and learned. The one who knows this obtains every desire.
In the commentaries
The ear is called attainment because all the Vedas, and the knowledge that fulfills desires, are gathered in it through hearing; meditation on the ear as such secures whatever one wishes.