Khila Kanda. Adhyaya 6, Brahmana 2. The five fires, and the two paths after death
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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.
Fourth fire, the man
Man, O Gautama, is the fire. The open mouth is its fuel; the vital breath, its smoke; speech, its flame; the eye, its embers; the ear, its sparks. In this fire the gods offer food. Out of that oblation seed arises.
The fourth fire: the man is a fire, with his open mouth as fuel, the breath (prana) as smoke, speech as flame, the eye as embers, the ear as sparks. In this fire the gods offer food (eaten by the man), and from that offering the generative seed (retas) is produced.