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"Wer Weisheit mit Heiterkeit und Liebenswürdigkeit verbindet, hat die höchste Stufe im Menschenleben erreicht."
"Wenn im Herzen keine Bosheit ist, so sind immer Heiterkeit und Leichtigkeit in Miene und Manieren."
"Sei wieder ruhig, sei heiter, und bring mir das einzig seelige Gefühl, dass du zufrieden bist. Und gib auch mir meine Ruhe wieder, dann gewiss, dann gewiss werde ich glücklich sein."
"Heiterkeit kann kein Übermaß haben, sondern ist immer gut; Melancholie dagegen ist immer schlecht."
"Die Jugend soll nicht traurig sein, sondern heiter und fröhlich. Junge Menschen sollen voll Frohsinn sein."
""Die innere Heiterkeit des Menschen, die wahre Heiterkeit"
"Das Herz muss in Harmonie und Ruhe sein, dann erst wird es heiter."
"Das Begehren wohnt in den Sinnen, die Heiterkeit oder Nichtheiterkeit aber liegt im Herzen."
"Ach! wohin bist du geflohen, // Meiner Jugend Heiterkeit? // Ach! wie schnell bist du entschwunden, // Meines Lebens Rosenzeit?"
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.