In plain words
Yet none of the waves is separate from the ocean. The waves are parts of the ocean. In the same way, every human being who arises in this universe is a form that has arisen from Saccidānanda. “Mamaivāṃśo”: all are a part of Me alone, not a part of the five elements, nor a part of the world: so it has been teaching. God is the embodiment of Prema. So man too is a part of that Prema.
But man is unable to offer that Prema to the world even to some extent. The cause of this is selfishness and self-interest. Today, physically and scientifically, mankind has advanced in many ways. But morally and in Dharma it is sinking lower day by day. Whatever work one does, selfishness moves behind it. Whatever one thinks, whatever one hears, whatever one speaks, behind all of it selfishness is moving. So only when we root out this selfishness will the good of others come within our reach. So we must make divinity arise in our service, believe that divinity is in all human beings, and serve in that faith. In man today there is neither a taste for sacrifice nor a distaste for enjoyment. Saying, “By sacrifice alone have some attained immortality,” we must sacrifice in every way, at least to some extent, and serve the world. Sacrifice must begin, first of all, with our parents. Mother, father, preceptor, God: these words come one after another in a row. We hear them from the lips of everyone. We are unable to recognise the inner meaning of this order. One could just as well say father, mother, preceptor, could one not? But there is an inner meaning in the order of these four: mother, father, preceptor, God. What is its inner meaning?
The moment we are born, the one we see with our eyes, the one who fondles us, tends us and nourishes us in every way, is the mother. We have no knowledge by which to know who our father is. Nor have we even the intellect to know who our father is.