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""Was man von der Schönheit des Bosporus gesagt hat, ist, mit Einschluß der Uebertreibung, buchstäblich wahr, denn die Uebertreibung ist der Erhebung natürlich. [...] Die Welt hat vielleicht nichts, was sich damit als Ganzes vergleichen läßt." - Franz Grillparzer, Tagebücher: Der Bosporus und seine Ufer, 12. September. Hrsg. von Heinrich Laube. Stuttgart: Cotta, 1884. S. 105."
"Wäre in Nepal nichts erhalten, außer dem Königsplatz von Bhatgaon (Bhaktapur), er wäre immer noch eine Reise um den halben Erdball wert, um ihn zu sehen."
"Zehn Maß Schönheit kamen auf die Erde herab. Jerusalem bekam davon neun Maß. Die übrige Welt eins. Zehn Maß Leiden kamen auf die Erde herab. Jerusalem bekam davon neun Maß."
"Wünschet Jerusalem Glück! Es möge wohlgehen denen, die dich lieben! Es möge Friede sein in deinen Mauern und Glück in deinen Palästen!"
"Wenn ich dich je vergesse, Jerusalem, dann soll mir die rechte Hand verdorren."
"Jerusalem soll ohne Mauern bewohnt werden."
"Ich freute mich über die, die mir sagten: Lasset uns ziehen zum Hause des HERRN! Nun stehen unsere Füße in deinen Toren, Jerusalem."
"Nach Jerusalem, in deine Stadt, werden wir voller Freude zurückkehren."
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.