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.
Uddalaka to Yajnavalkya
This Uddalaka, the son of Aruna, told to his pupil Yajnavalkya, the Vajasaneya, and said: Even if one were to pour this on a dry stump, branches would grow and leaves sprout.
This teaching Uddalaka, son of Aruna, gave to his pupil Yajnavalkya of the Vajasaneya line, and he said of it: so potent is it that if one poured it even on a dead, dry stump, the stump would put out branches and grow leaves.