Khila Kanda. Adhyaya 6, Brahmana 3. The rite for greatness
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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.
Told only to a son or pupil
And this very thing Satyakama, the son of Jabala, told to his pupils and said: Even if one were to pour this on a dry stump, branches would grow and leaves sprout. One should not tell this to one who is not a son or who is not a resident pupil.
This same teaching Satyakama, son of Jabala, gave to his pupils, and he said the same of it: poured even on a dry stump, it would make branches grow and leaves sprout. And the rule is set down: it must not be told to anyone who is not one's own son or one's resident pupil.