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"Die Upanishaden sind so alt wie Homer und so modern wie Kant."
"Die Bewegung aller Sinne kommt zur Ruhe. In der Erkenntnis nimmt er seinen festen Stand. Seine Seele bleibt immer in der Weltseele. In dem Gedanken `das Brahman, das vollkommene Wonne und alleiniges Wissen ist, bin ich´, hat er sein Ziel erreicht."
"Der Geist ist für die Menschen die Ursache von Fessel und Freiheit. Zur Fessel dient das Haften an der Sinneswelt, die Abkehr von ihr zur Freiheit."
"Das höchste Brahman, die Seele von allem, die große Stütze der Welt, feiner als das Feine, das immer Seiende, das bist du, das bist du."
"Darum soll ein dessen Kundiger, müde, sanft, entsagend, geduldig geworden, im eigenen Selbst den Âtman erblicken. Er sieht einen jeden als das Selbst an, ein jeder wird für ihn zum Selbst, er wird für jeden zum 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.