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"Mercenaries of the shrine, who are you to speak for God? With haughty eyes and lying tongues and hands that shed innocent blood. Who delivered you the power to interpret Calvary? You gamble away our freedom to gain your own authority."
"I went to see a doctor of philosophy With a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knees. He never did marry or see a B-grade movie. He graded my performance, he said he could see through me. I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, got my paper And I was free."
"Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good laugh."
"I offer thanks to those before me. That's all I've got to say. 'Cause maybe you squandered big bucks in your lifetime Now I have to pay."
"The Mississippi's mighty But it starts in Minnesota At a place that you could walk across with five steps down."
"Galileo's head was on the block... The crime was looking up for truth... And then you had to bring up reincarnation... How long 'til my soul gets it right... Can any human being ever reach that kind of light... I call on the resting soul of Galileo... King of night vision, king of insight... I'm not making a joke, you know me...I take everything so seriously... If we wait for the time 'til all souls get it right... Then at least I know there'll be no nuclear annihilation... Can any human being ever reach the highest light... Except for Galileo — God rest his soul... Except for the resting soul of Galileo..."
"I squeeze the sky out but there’s not a star appears"
"They stole my land They won't steal my soul"
"They said "We've been looking for illegal immigrants, Can we check your car?" I said "You know it's funny, I think we were on the same boat back in 1694.""
"We're sculpted from youth, the chipping away makes me weary"
"Come on, the summer's coming. Rain's been heavy and the river's running. Loose the cuff It's been tough, But it's fast improving. We got sticks to hollow piles. We got stories- lead to smiles We gotta twirl With this world, I can feel it moving."
"I don't know what to believe I just show up and breathe Anymore"
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.