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"Yunus'dur benim adım Gün geçtikçe artar odum İki cihanda maksûdum Bana seni gerek seni."
"translation:"
"My name is Yunus, Each passing day fans and rouses my flame, What I desire in both worlds is the same: You're the one I need, you're the one I crave"
"Işkun aldî benden beni bana seni gerek seni Ben yanaram düni güni bana seni gerek seni. Eğer beni öldüreler külüm göke savuralar Toprağîm anda çağîra bana seni gerek seni."
"Thy love hath taken me from me; Thou, Thou art needed by me. Day and night do I burn; Thou, Thou art needed by me. Were they to slay me, let them winnow my ashes into the heavens. There let my dust cry, "Thou, Thou art needed by me.""
"İki kişi söyleşür Yunus i görsem diyü Biri aydur ben gördüm bir aşik kocaimiş."
"Two Persons talk, saying "Would that I see Yunus One [of them] says, "I saw, he is [only] an eminent lover."
"Aşîk oldum şoy ay yüze nizar oldum bal ağîza Nazar kîldîm kara göze siyah olun kaşa geldim."
"I fell in love with this moon-face: Lavishly I am scattered on the honeymouth I glanced at the black eye; being black I landed on the eyebrow."
"Aşîklarîn gönlü gözü maşuk dapa gitmiş olur Ben gönlümü kul eyleyem başed ki maşuka irem."
"Lover's heart and eye will have gone toward the beloved. Let me render my heart a slave, it may happen that I join the beloved."
"Ben be mülke garib geldün ben bu ilden bizerem Bu dutsaklîk Tuzağîn demi geldi üzerem."
"I came to this world (as a ) stranger, I am tried of this land. The time has come that I break this trap of enslavement."
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.