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.
The mind, an abode for all
He who knows the abode becomes the abode of his own people and the abode of other people. The mind is indeed the abode. He becomes the abode of his own people and the abode of other people, who knows this.
Whoever knows the abode (ayatana) becomes a refuge for his kin and for others as well. The mind (manas) is that abode. The one who knows this becomes a resting place for his own people and for strangers alike.
In the commentaries
The mind is the abode because it is the resting place in which the functions and objects of all the organs are gathered and held; meditation on the mind as such makes one a refuge for one's own and for others.