In plain words
Embodiments of Prema, students! Girl students! Teachers!
The moral conduct of man's daily life, divinity in the observances and thinking that belong to human life, ideal behaviour: the coming together of all these is culture. Today neither the boys nor the girls among the students make the effort needed to recognise the power and the holiness of such a sacred culture.
Saṃskṛtam, saṃskṛti, saṃskaraṇa, saṃskāra, social conduct: though all these words look different, they are born of the one root kṛñ, completed by 'sam'. In the culture of Bhārata many kinds of welfare, holiness and divinity are joined with an essence full of Ānanda. The sports competitions themselves are the proper sign of such unity. Though there are many differences in countries and appearances, in food and recreation, in games and songs, if all are together as one, warm-hearted, joined in unity, that way of being shows itself as ideal in the games. The special worth of games is to forget differences and, in harmony and co-ordination, to make divinity manifest in them.
These games give not only bodily strength but health and joy as well. Students must not be satisfied with this much. A human being has a second body, the subtle body. That is what is called Manas. There is a need to gain this purity of mind, breadth of heart and purity of citta. Only when the physical, mental and spiritual principles are brought into accord does humanness shine. The holiness, the tenacity and the care we experience in the games, that same care, holiness and tenacity we must bring into the fields of Dharma, of the spirit and of morals.
We must make a fitting effort to experience in the right way the divinity in such a sacred culture of Bhārata. The culture of Bhārata was not formed out of narrow feelings or fancies at all. The culture of Bhārata is made up of feelings that are broad, deep, full of Ānanda and full of welfare. 'Lokāssamastā sukhino bhavantu' is the very aim of the culture of Bhārata.