In plain words
The cowherd drives off all the cattle of the people of the village. All the herdsmen who have driven them out let them loose in the green pastures. All the herd-boys sit under a tree and enjoy the cows as their own, as their own property, with words such as these: my cow has fallen sick, my cow has strayed, my cow is about to calve. By thinking "my cow, my beast" in this way they suffer no loss and make no gain. They know from the start that this cow is so-and-so's cow, and they know too that its owner is someone else. Even while believing that its owner is someone else, he builds up the bond of "this is mine" only so long as it is in his hands. In the same way, in this world, you may use these words, my child, my wife, my husband, my son, but through them there should be no … tie of sorrow or of joy of any kind at all. All are God's children. All are gifts He has granted. If we hold this fully with this feeling of God, no sorrow at all can find a way into us. While carrying out your duty, you must develop such feelings.
But today we experience a mother's Prema, a father's Prema and the Prema of kin as a kind of marketplace. What we have said is offered to God must be offered completely. Saying "some is Yours and some is mine", you must not bring God into this partner business. He will not enter this partnership. Draupadī, too, held her sari tightly with one hand and went on calling "Hey Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa!" with one hand only …. Then He saw this scene. Her devotion is only a part-time devotion. Half she puts on herself, half on Me. I must not enter this business. If she does it, it must be offered wholly to Me. Or else she must bear it wholly. How long would she go on trying? She grew weary. She recognised well the Tattva within her mind. "Am I the one who can protect myself? God alone must protect me." With that, crying "Hey Kṛṣṇa!", she joined both hands. What happened through joining the two was that her ten senses became, as it were, offered to the Paramātma. When the five organs of action and the five organs of knowledge came together, she offered these ten senses to the Paramātma. Then He came and saved her. The giving up of every attachment is the chief cause of Bhakti for the Lord of all. So it was with the king of elephants too. He prayed for a long time. How did he pray? Holding fast to the screw-pine tree on that bank, firmly and well, with his trunk, he said, "Come, O Īśvara!" On one side he holds the tree firmly with his trunk and calls "Come, O Īśvara"; how will He come? He is putting his weight on his own trunk. He believes, "My own trunk will save me."