In plain words
The root of it is this: the king must be right. The master must be right. The government must be right. All these must enter the path of Satya. "Only then will the country prosper": this he kept proclaiming widely. Socrates' first disciple was Plato. This Plato was a very noble man. He longed to proclaim Socrates' sacred ideas widely to the world. He said that the world greatly needs three things, just three. One is truth; the second is beauty, and beauty does not mean what belongs to the body. Selflessness itself is beauty. One who works selflessly is very beautiful. Then the third is purity. He translated them as steadfastness, spotlessness and selflessness.
After that another disciple of Plato's came up. Aristotle. This Aristotle had a great deal to do with the culture of Bhārata. Taking the sayings of the Upaniṣads, Plato turned these, steadfastness, spotlessness and selflessness, into Satyaṃ Śivaṃ Sundaram. In the world Satyaṃ Śivaṃ Sundaram is most necessary. This is the life story of Sathya Sai: Satyaṃ Śivaṃ Sundaram. That is, one must speak Satya. Śivaṃ means what is auspicious. What is auspicious? Freedom from selfishness alone is auspicious. If there is selfishness, it becomes inauspicious. Then Sundaram. When there is no pride and possessiveness, one is beautiful. Keeping these away from the mind is itself Sundaram. In this way Aristotle went on developing everything. "Only when the country grows in this way can the people too have its joy": this they went on resolving. In all this they were following the culture of Bhārata. What is the culture of Bhārata? All you children must first understand this thing called culture. Those who farm, who raise crops, are called agriculturists in English. Ploughing the land, tilling it and raising the crops man needs: that, they said, is agriculture. Cultivating the field of the heart is this culture of Bhārata. One who raises crops in the field of the heart. What crops must one raise in this field of the heart? One must raise the crop called Prema. One must raise the crop called compassion. One must raise the crop called sacrifice. "What has these qualities is the culture of Bhārata": so they have been saying. So we are farmers who raise crops in this heart. This is our culture of Bhārata. Good conduct, good feeling, good thought, good speech, good deeds: all these are reflections of the culture of Bhārata. Culture means we must raise a crop.