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"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me."
"But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the ."
"But the sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken."
"And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah."
"And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the , the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land."
"For the sea wrought, and was tempestuous."
"So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging."
"Then Jonah prayed unto the his God out of the fish's belly."
"When my soul fainted within me I remembered the : and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple."
"Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee."
"For I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil."
"And the God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered."
"And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?"
"And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment."
"Sailors can abide a great deal, but not a Jonah."
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.