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"Christian missionaries should be careful to keep the true motivation. A shift in the orientation may reduce the mission of the Church merely to a social work of any other social activist. This situation leads to competition and triumphalism. In order to avoid these dangers, missionaries should be convinced that they are involved in a service rendered to God and to his Kingdom."
"The Asian situation - cultural, religious and social - is relatively congenial to the preaching of the Good News of the Kingdom of God preached by Jesus Christ and rendered present in His person and life, as it is fulfilling the aspirations and hopes of the Asian people steeped in the misery of poverty. Hence the Church should take it as its supreme task."
"The Catholic Church is committed to work tirelessly for the common good and to help each believer to be an "adal azamat". All social projects the Catholic Church is undertaking throughout the country contribute to building a better present and future for the needy."
"I agree such incidents can happen in a big country... But how do you evaluate the strength and stand of the government? It is the subsequent action and the legal protection are what matter. The country is being divided on the basis of religious belief. It is bad in a democratic country. I want my country to be united in a secular fabric. But now, this country is being polarised due to religious affiliations. We should fight against it"
"I'm a flying bishop, like the Heavenly Father, often I am on travel."
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.