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"Nähme ich Flügel der Morgenröte und bliebe am äußersten Meer, so würde mich doch deine Hand daselbst führen und deine Rechte mich halten."
"Gefestigt ist mein Herz, o Gott, gefestigt ist mein Herz! Ich will singen und spielen. Wache auf, meine Seele! Wachet auf, Harfe und Zither! Ich will aufwecken die Morgenröte."
"Am Abend noch Jungfrau, um Mitternacht eine junge Frau, beim Morgenrot schon ein Hausfrauchen."
"Klappe zu, Affe tot, endlich lacht das Morgenrot."
"Es ist mir in den Wissenschaften gegangen wie einem, der früh aufsteht, in der Dämmerung die Morgenröte, sodann aber die Sonne ungeduldig erwartet und doch, wie sie hervortritt, geblendet wird."
""Der Frühling, die Nachtigall, das Morgenroth, des Mädchens holder Blick"
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.