In plain words
Svagṛhe pūjyate mūrkhaḥ svagrāme pūjyate prabhuḥ. Svadeśe pūjyate rājāḥ vidvān sarvatra pūjyate.
However foolish a man may be, he cannot fail to be honoured in his own home. However foolish he may be, his mother and father cannot help loving him. What is the reason? Because he is their son, unable to let go of the bonds of Prema, out of fondness and attachment they love him even if he is a fool, the parents do. In however many foolish ways the village headman may behave, the villagers honour him. The reason? Power lies in his hands. The one who has gained power receives honour too. He is the head of the village. One must show honour to the position. In a country, whatever sort of man the king may be, the people honour him. The reason: the seat of power. In this Kali age people give honour to power and to wealth, but give no honour to virtue or to the wealth of character. Learning is honoured everywhere. What learning? Only the learning of the Ātma is honoured everywhere. Untouched in the least by place, time and circumstance, learning is honoured everywhere. The learning of the Ātma brings still greater honour. That is the principle of the knowledge of Brahman that arose in the age of the Vedas. That same principle of the Veda a German called Griffith went on expounding in many ways.
The very first word that came forth from man is the Veda. That is why Max muller too went on honouring the Veda. He built himself a separate āśrama and, living a solitary life in that āśrama, went on translating the Veda into English. In those days many people of Bhārata were studying for the ICS at Oxford university. Drawing on the Vedas, Max muller went on giving all of them a fine message. He wrote a book called ‘What India teaches us’. Speak the truth, practise Dharma, regard your mother as God, regard your father as God: these are the four chief pillars of the mansion called the culture of Bhārata, he said. All the dharmas that arose from the Veda are limbs of the culture of Bhārata. Wilson went on describing the power of the culture at length. He went on translating into English the Purāṇas composed by the sage Parāśara. He explained well the import of the Padma Purāṇa he had translated: it holds that in the Kali age, in a village called Parti, a person five feet three inches tall will arise, named Satya.