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"Respetuhin at mahalin mo ang sarili mo. Diba magiging open ka sa pagmamahal kasi yang ang isa sa pinakamasarap na feeling. Pero kung hindi ka masaya at taken for granted ka na lang, mahalin mo muna yung sarili mo. Maas mamahalin ka ng taong mahal mo kung nakikita din niya na mahal mo ang sarili mo. (Respect and love yourself. You will be open to love because it is one of the best feelings. But if you are not happy and you are taken for granted, love yourself first. The person you love will love you more if they see that you love yourself too.)"
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.