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"The year has two halves, white and black; two sides, right and left. Hence is this verse (of the Rig Veda), "White is one, holy is the other, two days diverse in form are yours, you are like Heaven ... Pushan let your blessing be here.""
"As far and wide the vernal breeze Sweet odors wafts from blooming trees, So, too, the grateful savor speeds To distant lands of virtuous deeds."
"The Sun, therefore, goes by the south for six months and for six months by the north."
"Whoso worships God under the thought, "He is the foundation," becomes founded; under the thought, "He is great," becomes great; under the thought, "He is mind," becomes wise."
"The level of agricultural operations is suggested vividly by TS.IV.2.5: The well with buckets fastened with strong straps that yieldeth abundantly... yoke the ploughs, stretch apart the yokes. May the ripe (grain) be brought low by the sickle. The plough, of keen share, propitious, with well-polished handle."
"Battles are graphically described in TS.IV.6.6: He whizzeth as he goes to battle/ The quiver, slung on the back, yielding its content/Doth conquer every band and army./Standing on the chariot he guideth his steeds before him..../ Skilfully the strong- hooved horses neigh/As with the cars they show their strength;/Trampling with their fore feet the enemy?They unflinchingly destroy the foe."
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.