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Introduction
Bunch Of Thoughts
M.S. Golwalkar
Part Four - Moulding Men
XXXVII. The Ideal Incarnate
Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar
THE FOUNDER OF
RASHTRIYA SWAYAMSEVAK SANGH
Life-long self-crucifixion - Self-transformation - Friend of all, enemy to none - The irresistible - Incomparable unifier - Self-effaced - Living for others - In the fire of endless exertion - The death that enlivens millions - How words derive power - Child of greatness.
(*) Compiled from the speech of Sri Guruji at the III year Sangh Siksha Varg at Nagpur.
Doctor Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, the founder of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, was born in 1889 in Nagpur. From his early childhood until his very last, his life burned like a steady lamp in the cause of the motherland. Even as a child of eight he threw away in disgust the sweets given to him in his school on Queen Victoria's birthday saying that it was a sign of slavery. He amazed his elders by his strange questions such as- "How is it that these Englishmen coming form thousands of miles away have become our rulers?" When he was in high school he was rusticated for lighting the flame of Vande Mataram movement among the students. He had, as it were, imbibed the spirit of undiluted patriotism right from his mother's womb.
Author : M. S. Golwalkar
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