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"GeflĂĽsterter Rat ist keine Erbse wert."
"Der Alten Rat, der Jungen Tat, macht Krummes grad."
"Zieh viele darĂĽber zurate, was du tun sollst, aber teile nur wenigen mit, was du ausfĂĽhren wirst."
"Wer das tut, was er tut mit Rat, // Den reuet selten seine Tat."
"Ratschläge sind eine gefährliche Gabe, selbst von den Weisen an die Weisen. Und alle Wege mögen in die Irre führen."
"Langsam erteilter Rat ist bei weitem der beste, denn wo schnell er gegeben, folgt die Reu' auf dem FuĂź."
""Ich weiß, daß diese Ratschläge vergeblich sind, und ich"
"Ein Gastfreund hat an seines Gastfreundes Wohlergehen seine besondere Freude und gibt ihm auf Verlangen den wohlmeinendsten Rat."
"Der Arzt, der nicht dazu rät, dass man seine Affekte beherrscht, kann seinen Beruf nicht vollkommen ausüben."
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.