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"Weh ruft: Vergeh! Doch alle Lust will Ewigkeit, // will tiefe tiefe Ewigkeit."
"Weh dem, der Sterben sah! // Er trägt für immer // Die weiße Blume bleiernen Entsetzens."
"So lockt mich die Moschee; // Ich kleid' in maurische Schnörkel // Mein abendländisches Weh."
"Hinter dem U kommt gleich das Weh, // das ist die Ordnung im ABC."
"Ein Glück, das man nie gekannt, zu entbehren, tut nicht weh, weh aber, ein Glück zu verlieren, an das man gewöhnt war."
"Die Wüste wächst: weh, wer zur Wüste ward!"
"Amor ist ein mächtiger Fürst // Und hat mich so gebeugt, daß ich bekenne, // Es gibt kein Weh, das seiner Strafe glich, // Doch gibts nicht größre Lust, als ihm zu dienen."
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.