The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣadbhāṣyam

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आकाशान्ताः पृथिव्यादयो भूतगणा देवतागणाश्च का-र्यकरणसंघातात्मानः उपकुर्वन्तो मधु भवन्ति प्रतिशरीरि-णमित्युक्तम् ।येन ते प्रयुक्ताः शरीरिभिः संबध्यमानामधुत्वेनोपकुर्वन्ति, तत् वक्तव्यमिति इदमारभ्यते—

In plain words

We have already said this much: every group of beings and every group of deities, from earth all the way to space, is built of body and organs, and each one serves as honey for every embodied creature. What remains is to say exactly how — by what means these elements and deities, linked as they are to embodied beings, actually function as honey. That is what the text takes up now.

Close to the Sanskrit

It has been stated that the groups of beings and the groups of deities, from earth up to space, whose nature is the aggregate of body and organs, become honey by serving each embodied being. That by which they, thus employed and connected with embodied beings, serve in the state of honey — that is to be stated; this is now begun—