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"Verzicht', o Herz, auf Rettung, // Dich wagend in der Liebe Meer! // Denn tausend Nachen schwimmen // Zertrümmert am Gestad' umher!"
"Drei Dinge kehren nie: // Der Pfeil, der abgeschossen, // Das ausgesprochne Wort, // Die Tage, die verflossen."
"Wenn die Religionen wahr sind, dann deshalb, weil jedesmal Gott gesprochen hat, und wenn sie verschieden sind, dann darum, weil Gott verschiedene Sprachen gesprochen hat gemäß der Verschiedenheit der empfangenden Gefäße; und schließlich, wenn sie unbedingt und ausschließlich sind, dann deshalb, weil Gott in jeder von ihnen gesagt hat: »Ich«."
"Liebe ist Verantwortung eines Ich für ein Du."
"Gott wohnt, wo man ihn einläßt."
"Erfolg ist keiner der Namen Gottes."
"Der Mensch wird am Du zum Ich."
"Beziehung beruht auf Gegenseitigkeit."
"Alt sein ist ja ein herrliches Ding, wenn man nicht verlernt hat, was anfangen heißt."
"Alles wirkliche Leben ist Begegnung."
"Alle Reisen haben eine heimliche Bestimmung, die der Reisende nicht ahnt."
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.