In plain words
Is this what I have done?" he grieved, they say. Today our business management too is like this. Because the people of each country said one thing each, our Bhārata took that off, then took everything off, and has set about going bankrupt. We are forgetting what is our own. Only by imitating what is outside, imitation, imitation, we are bringing our country into misery in every way.
In ancient times, in the land of Greece, a king called Spartan tried to frame well the laws of his kingdom. He had a guru. Bowing to the guru's command, he took permission to go and see in which countries, and by what kinds of rules, they were ruling their kingdoms, and to come back. He went round all the countries of Asia. At the very last he came to Bhārata. He carefully observed the system of education that was in Bhārata. In those days there were no big universities. In those days, in the forests, some great soul would keep some ten children with him and teach them, and that itself was a great university. The home of each ṛṣi was a university. Comforts of this kind, big buildings, big auditoriums, they did not have at all. He noted the way they would sometimes seat the children right under a tree and teach them their lessons. Whatever hardships, whatever losses, whatever discomforts came, they bore them and endured them, and kept on choosing the guru. There were no complaints of any kind, neither from teachers nor from children. How the disciples conducted themselves with these gurus, how the gurus trained the disciples: these two he observed. He took interviews with some learned men too. He understood these. He understood that the education of the people of Bhārata was an education joined with morality and integrity, and in this he himself read through Vedānta texts of certain kinds, all of them. In the Upaniṣads it is said that Satya alone wins victory. In the Bhagavad Gītā: Satyaṃ nāsti paro dharmaḥ. He settled that Satya alone is the one foundation of every Dharma. "Only the man of Satya can raise this world to an exalted state": this he saw in the Bible. Only through the union of these two, teaching and work, does man experience the divine principle. He saw in the Qur'ān the truth that by true speech and by good conduct one can become a true man.