In plain words
One day, as the neighbours were going to a temple fair, his mother too went along with them. But she had no good sari to wear. She put on some old sari and set out. Seeing that, Vidyāsāgar was very much pained. That very evening he bought good saris for his mother and brought them home. Little by little he came into good circumstances. His salary too rose a good deal. One evening, as mother and son were talking together, he said, “Mother! If you have any wishes, tell me; I will fulfil them as far as my strength allows.” Then she: “My son! The people of our village have to go a long way to fetch drinking water. So if you have a well dug in our village, I will be very happy,” she said. Vidyāsāgar at once had a well dug and ended the people's distress of thirst. His mother rejoiced greatly: “My son! Water is most important for the body. By giving the people water, which is equal to life itself, you have done them a great service,” she said in his praise. Another evening Vidyāsāgar asked, “Mother! Do you have any more wishes?” “My son! The little children of our village have to go to the next village for their studies. So build a small school here,” she said. With the money he had left he had a school built. Seeing the children go happily to that school, playing and singing, the mother rejoiced greatly. “My son! This is a great ideal not for our village alone but for the whole country. Your life has been blessed. I am so happy that a good son like you was born in my womb,” she said.
Another evening, when Vidyāsāgar came back from the office, he noticed his mother lost in deep thought and asked the reason. “My son! You have given the people water. You have had a school built. But because there is no hospital here, when any illness comes to the children, they are put to great hardship. So build a hospital,” she asked him. Vidyāsāgar at once had a small hospital built. In it he appointed a doctor and a nurse. I am telling you all this because a mother's resolves must be of the noblest. The son must recognise the truth that he was born in her womb precisely to put his mother's noble resolves into practice.