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the train, while a new one would join him until the next station,
and then the same series of talks would continue with him too.
This was how he would talk to different Swayamsevaks during
his tours, and thus he hastened the process of the development
of a Swayamsevak as well as the expansion of the Sangh.

We can clearly feel his fragrance of hard work when we
think of the Sangh’s expansion. When we recall his devoted life
today, it clearly brings to the fore numerous qualities in his
otherwise ordinary life. Every Sangh Swayamsevak gets an
opportunity to visit different places and come into contact with
diverse people. However, Deshmukh was very proficient in
identifying the attitude and aptitude of the person coming into
his contact, to feel his energy and to give an opportunity to the
qualities inherent in him. He was at all times making effort to
put into practice the maxim – ‘work for every individual and
individual for every work’. He never felt hesitant to adopt any
information that might have come from an ordinary
Swayamsevak or his family member. An important characteristic
of Deshmukh’s working style was that he did not waste any
time in some particular process to mould others; rather he would
direct the innate qualities inherent in an individual in order to
motivate him to invest him in the national good. Thus, he had
the capability to engage the vigour and energy of more and
more number of people.

When we look at the enterprising decisions made in the
course of Sangh’s life in Gujarat, the name of Deshmukh would
always stick to memory. He was always making endeavour to
develop the work not in the process of ‘addition’ but
‘multiplication’. It was a time in the life of Sangh in Gujarat
when an amount of thirty-five thousand rupees appeared to be
monstrous. In February 1981, a challenge had aroused in the
country due to the conversion of Dalits in Minakshipuram. The
Sangh initiated the awareness programme in the whole country,
and took over the constructive work for the welfare of the Dalit
tribals. At this time, a campaign was also started to collect funds
within a specified period of time. At that time, an amount of
thirty-five thousand rupees appeared to be massive, but
Gujarat’s Sangh collected a relief fund of three lakh rupees, and