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Crores of people must have prayed the Ganga and sipped
from it.

Numerous people must have washed the dirt off their
bodies.

Numerous people must have lighted lamps and incense
sticks.

Numerous people must have spread fragrance from
rubbing sandal.

Numerous people must have undertaken meditation.
And many people like Sant Tulsi must have created eternal
literature of life.
But, look at the special feature of our great cultural heritage.
It is not necessary for Gangaghat to be at the Ganga.
On the bank of the Sangh Ganga flowing in Gujarat, there
is a lively Gangaghat, faith and institution incarnate, that is the
late Bachubhai Bhagat.
In Gujarat, when the Sangh’s Ganga was still like a small
stream like the Gangotri, from that time, the life of the student
Bachubhai has been actively witness to the development of the
Sangh there. Right from the late Madhukarrao, the late Rajpal
Puriji or the late respectable Vakil Saheb, or anybody else from
the present generation, Bachubhai has been very reliable
comrade to each one of them.
The ruinous office at Manek Chowk, which lacked even
the basic facilities, which was an office only in name, was home
to Bachubhai for years.
We never noticed any extravaganza, external show, rise and
fall, pity or anger in the life of Bachubhai. On the bank of the
Sangh Ganga have developed a number of small and big centres
of pilgrim in the form of families. All Swayamsevaks, volunteers
or leaders used to come and sit by Gangaghat in the form of
Bachubhai, and drink from his learning before proceeding
ahead. He had moral influence on all of them. There was no
occasion when Bachubhai asked for something to be done within
the family, and it was not done. All are witness to this banyan
tree of the Sangh family that Bachubhai never intervened in
any task pertaining to the family. Of course, he always rendered