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"Wer nützt, ist mehr, als wer ergötzet."
"Wer ist ein freier Mann? // Der, dem nur eigner Wille // Und keines Zwingherrn Grille // Gesetze geben kann; // Der ist ein freier Mann."
"Wer jedes Freund seyn will, ist niemands Freund."
"Was für die junge Braut der Kranz // Und für das Kirchenlicht der Kragen, // Das ist auch noch in unsern Tagen // Dem Eichhorn und dem Fuchs der Schwanz."
"So lenkt ein Irrwisch unsre Schritte, // Und erst in unsers Lebens Mitte // Steckt die Vernunft ihr Lämpchen an."
"Lust und Schmerz // Sind, gleich den Schalen einer Wage, // Hier nie getrennt, und dieser neigt // Das Herz in seine rechte Lage, // Wenn es zu hoch im Glücke steigt."
"Ihr Kinder, lernet ihr genug, // Ihr lernt nichts mehr in alten Tagen."
"Hüte dich vor Schwärmerey // Und suche kein Geschöpf hienieden, // Das frey von allen Mängeln sey."
""Gott grüß Euch, Alter!"
"Die Menschen und die Pyramiden // Sind nicht gemacht, um auf dem Kopf zu stehn."
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.