The speaker says a mother's life is closely tied to her child and is expressed through four major elements, given as love, time and affection, each with its own meaning. Love, for instance, means a mother understands without words what it means when her child flings a college bag down or sets it quietly aside.

Mother is described as a word that names qualities: love, compassion, tolerance, self-reliance and dedication. The combination, the bundle, of these qualities is the mother. The speaker adds that a mother is not just a person but a representative of God, and that motherhood cannot come from an injection; it needs a soft, loving heart.

Citing the sixth chapter of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, the speaker says souls far along the path of Yoga, Dharma and Sadhana who slip back are reborn in pure homes or in families of yogis. She assures the mothers that the children born in their homes are therefore special, more than ordinary, and closer to God.

In the story, when the child worries about leaving, God smiles and says he has already placed an angel there who will lovingly care for the child, teach it language, understand its broken first words and even teach it to talk with God. That angel, God's representative present for each of us, is the mother.

The speaker names Yashoda, who could tie the child Krishna to a mortar; Shri Bhuvaneshwari Devi, who calmed her son's storms by pouring cold water; Dayakuvarba, who gave true knowledge and devotion in Narsinh's home; and Shakuntala, whose brave son Bharat opened a lion's mouth to count its teeth.

The child is given first priority: while cooking, doing housework, or running a job or business, mothers put the child ahead of the family business. On a crowded street a mother knows her child is asleep under the tree, and even mid-meeting she will message the child to heat the food properly in the oven.

The mother plays the role of a charioteer for every child. As each child strings a new bow, she gives a high, beautiful target, until the child becomes a complete archer able to fight life's battle alone. Earlier she describes how a mother lets go of the child's finger so the child can go out into the world.

Families that stand with these mothers are called very fortunate. Some families or communities cannot give proper support, but if people walk alongside the children, they share in that virtue and come closer to God. When families join in, caring for the child and bringing progress becomes more pleasant and simple.

She quotes the scripture listing five rare things, 'janani janma bhumischa janvicha janardana... pancha durlabham', with mother first. She also quotes the poet Kaag: even when death has come and Yama is striking, the mother still worries about her child, so how could we forget her. She closes repeating 'Mataram pranamamyaham' and 'Vande Mataram'.