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"Let your alms sweat in your hands until you know to whom you are giving."
"You shall hate no person; but some you shall reprove, and for some you shall pray, and some you shall love more than your own life."
"Where the Lord's nature is spoken of, there he is present."
"You shall not turn away the needy, but shall share everything with your brother, and shall not say that it is your own, for if you are sharers in the imperishable, how much more in the things which perish?"
"If he ask for money, he is a false prophet."
"And all prophets who teach the truth, if they do not do what they teach, are false prophets."
"If the one who comes is a traveler, help this person as much as you can, but he shall not remain with you more than two days, or if need be, three. And if he wishes to settle among you and has a craft, let him work for his bread. But if he has no craft, provide for him according to your understanding, so that no one shall live among you in idleness because he is a Christian. But if he will not do so, he is making traffic of Christ; beware of such people."
"There are two Ways,one of Life and one of Death; but there is a great difference between the two ways."
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.