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"Ist aber Christus nicht auferstanden, so ist unsre Predigt vergeblich, so ist auch euer Glaube vergeblich."
"Wehe jedem, der eine Sittenlehre predigt, die er nicht ausüben will!"
"Selbst Engelszungen haben nur Erfolg, wenn der Resonanzboden für das, was sie predigen, vorhanden ist."
"Ich weiß, sie tranken heimlich Wein // Und predigten öffentlich Wasser."
"Ich ließ // Der Puritaner dumpfe Predigtstuben, // Die Heimat hinter mir, in schnellem Lauf // Durchzog ich Frankreich, das gepriesene // Italien mit heißem Wunsche suchend."
"Die Zukunftsforschung hat überraschend schnell das Schicksal der Religionen erfahren. Sie dient zur Erbauung, sie verpufft als Predigt, sie erweckt Hoffnung, wo Entschlossenheit zur Änderung vordringlicher wäre."
"Die Sittlichkeit nimmt ab, und die Sittenlehrer fangen an zu predigen."
"Bevor ihr den Menschen predigt, wie sie sein sollen, zeigt es ihnen an euch selbst."
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.