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"Wer sieht nicht Geister auf den Wolken beim Untergang der Sonne?"
""Von dem Augenblick an, wo eine Religion bei der Philosophie Hilfe begehrt, ist ihr Untergang unabwendlich." – Heinrich Heine, Zur Geschichte der Religion und Philosophie in Deutschland"
"Untergänge lassen sich nicht ungeschehen machen, Untergänge wollen anerkannt sein. Sie dulden keinen Wiederaufbau, sondern sie verlangen ein vollständiges Neuerschaffen."
"Jeder ĂĽbermĂĽtige Sieger arbeitet an seinem Untergang."
"Goethe spricht von den Deutschen als einem tragischen Volke, gleich dem der Juden und Griechen, aber heute hat es eher den Anschein, als sei es eine seichte, willenlose Herde von Mitläufern, denen das Mark aus dem Innersten gesogen und die nun ihres Kerns beraubt, bereit sind, sich in den Untergang hetzen zu lassen."
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.