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""Wie anders tragen uns die Geistes freuden, // Von Buch zu Buch, von Blatt zu Blatt! // Da werden Winternächte hold und schön, // Ein selig Leben wärmet alle Glieder, // Und ach! entrollst du gar ein würdig Pergamen (Pergament), // So steigt der ganze Himmel zu dir nieder."
"Worte sind Blätter, alte braune Blätter im Frühling, // Ins Unbekannte fliegen sie auf der Suche nach einem Lied."
"Welche Schicksale haben doch die schwachen Sterblichen, die wie Blätter im Wind treiben!"
"Schnell ist der Mond // Die Blätter der Bäume // halten den Regen auf."
"Die Blätter fallen jeden Winter von den Bäumen. Fünf oder sechs bleiben am Baum hängen und werden zum Spielball der Winde."
"Das Wort Gottes ist eine Lampe, deren Licht der Satz ist: Ihr seid die Früchte eines Baumes und die Blätter eines Zweiges."
"Das Blatt, auf dem die Raupe lebt, ist fĂĽr sie eine Welt, ein unendlicher Raum."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.