अयम् वायुः सर्वेषाम् भूतानाम् मधु अस्य वायोः सर्वाणि भूतानि मधु यः च अयम् अस्मिन् वायौ तेजोमयः अमृतमयः पुरुषः यः च अयम् अध्यात्मं प्राणस् तेजोमयः अमृतमयः पुरुषः अयम् एव सः यः अयम् आत्मा इदम् अमृतम् इदम् ब्रह्म इदम् सर्वम्
ayam vāyuḥ sarveṣām bhūtānām madhu asya vāyoḥ sarvāṇi bhūtāni madhu yaḥ ca ayam asmin vāyau tejomayaḥ amṛtamayaḥ puruṣaḥ yaḥ ca ayam adhyātmaṃ prāṇas tejomayaḥ amṛtamayaḥ puruṣaḥ ayam eva saḥ yaḥ ayam ātmā idam amṛtam idam brahma idam sarvam
This wind is the honey of all beings, and all beings are the honey of this wind. And the shining immortal person who is in the wind, and the shining immortal person who is in the body as breath — that is this ātman. This is the immortal, this is Brahman, this is all.
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The fourth wave is wind and breath: the pair that clamps the whole Veda together (Vāyu the never-setting deity, prāṇa the unwearying power, 1.5.21–22). The wind is the world's breathing, the breath is the body's wind; they are sweet to each other quite literally: every inbreath is a draught of the world's wind, every outbreath a contribution to it.
The honey is especially palpable here: the life of all that breathes is an unbroken kiss of the air and the breast. And in this nearest of nearnesses there is the same Puruṣa on both sides: He is breathed in, and He breathes; "I am the life of all that lives" (cf. BG 7.9).