In plain words
You do not even know which is your son and which is not. Among a hundred sons, was even one blessed with your sight! Can sinners never blessed even with such a mother's sight be blessed with My sight, then? The Pāṇḍavas are not like that. From the day they were born, their mother kept them in her lap and went on guarding them every moment, as dear as her life. That very Prema of Kuntī protected these Pāṇḍavas. The Pāṇḍavas' own Prema for that mother guarded the Pāṇḍavas. This is the natural Dharma of Prakṛti. Every person who follows this Dharma can attain well-being. So there is no need for us to give these, Durgā, Lakṣmī and Sarasvatī, special worship for the sake of this physical wealth and physical learning. Only when we love and worship our own mother do we become those who have loved all the deities. There is no heaven above the mother.
This is what Rāma too once said: ‘Jananī janmabhūmiśca svargādapi garīyasi.’ For Me there is no other heaven above My mother. So today we must grow this Prema for the mother in our hearts. The mother's protection is the auspicious protection of our life. If the father is the embodiment of Dharma, the mother takes on a form that surpasses heaven. Sometimes a son's own parents notice his doings and set about giving him some punishment. But even when the mother punishes, we must gain the power to recognise where the fault lies that brought that punishment. If a man who cannot swim falls into the water and loses his life, is the fault the water's or his? One should go into the water only after learning to swim; falling into the water without learning to swim is your fault, not the water's fault. If you put your hand into the fire and blame the fire because it burned, is this the fire's fault or yours? The fault is yours, who put it there without recognising that fire has the power to burn; it is not the fire's fault. In just the same way, if you do not do the things your mother likes, and do the things she dislikes, and for that the mother punishes you, this is your fault and not your mother's fault. We must keep doing what is good for this mother. We must keep doing what is dear to her. So it is this Śarannavarātri itself that gives us the mother's path: to love the mother and recognise the mother's power. Otherwise, if in the name of Durgā, Lakṣmī and Sarasvatī we spend money in many ways, bring flowers, bring kuṅkum, worship and pray in many ways, and yet disobey our mother's word, we gain no fruit at all from this worship.
So the mother herself is the form of Durgā, Lakṣmī and Sarasvatī. But never, on any day, try to make your mother shed tears. We may live not only in our own Bhārata but in other lands too. ‘Where tears spill from the eyes of a sweet-voiced woman, Fortune will not stay in that home,’ they said.