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"Deo Opt Max ac Virgini Deiparae sanctisque patronis suis divus Sigismundus Poloniae Rex campanam hanc dignam animi operumque ac gestorum suorum magnitudine fieri fecit anno salutis MDXX"
"If, traveller, the bell seems too big to you, tell me what work of Sigismund is small?"
"Dzwon królewski: Siedziałem u królewskich stóp, królewski za mną dwór: synaczek i kilka cór, Włoszka – a wielki chór kleru zawodził hymny; a dzwon wschodził. Patrzali wszyscy w górę, a dzwon wschodził – zawisnął u szczytów i z wyżyn się rozdzwonił..."
"Jak długo na Wawelu Brzmi Zygmuntowski dzwon; Jak długo z gór karpackich Rozbrzmiewa polski ton, Stać będzie kraj nasz cały, Stać będzie Piastów gród; Zwycięży Orzeł Biały, Zwycięży polski lud!"
"Ile przeżyć i wspomnień budzi w nas głos tego królewskiego dzwonu! Brzmi w tym uroczystym graniu modlitwa wieków o wolność i pomyślność Ojczyzny, a równocześnie jakieś wezwanie do uwalniania serc od wszystkiego, co jej może szkodzić, i do wznoszenia ducha ku tym wartościom, które nasze pokolenie przejęło ze wspaniałej tradycji ojców."
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.