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"Vertrau’ dem Mund des Windes nicht//und wenn er noch so günstig bliese!"
"Schöne Zeit, wo ich des Glückes// mit dem Freund zu sein genoss,// während zwecklos nur und Töricht// mir die Übrige verfloss!"
"O Herz, wenn du die heut'ge Lust// auf morgen ĂĽbertragen,// Wer will der Wert des Daseins// dir zu verbĂĽrgen wagen."
"Mag ich gut sein oder böse,// wandle weiter deinen Pfad!// Denn am Ende erntet jeder,// nur die Früchte seinen Tat."
"Lass die Welt dich nicht verführen!// Dieses alte Mütterlein,// setzt sich voll von Ränken nieder,// und erhebt sich Schalk und fein."
"Dessen Herz durch Liebe lebt,// wird den Toten nicht gesellt,// mein ewges Dasein steht// deshalb in dem Buch der Welt."
"Das Leben hängt an einem Haare,// d'rum mache Klugheit dir zu Pflicht,// Bis du eig'ner Freund geblieben,// dann kümm're dich das Schicksal nicht."
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.