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at home, still he went to the Shakha saying at home, “I’ll just
come after the prayer.” It was not that he had such emotional
intensity towards the Sangh during his youth. Right before the
Sankalpa Shivir in Gujarat, Bachubhai’s wife, our Motiben (elder
sister) died. On the first day of the Shivir was the Terahavin
Vidhi (the ritual held on the thirteenth day after death).
Bachubhai was unwell; still he completed the ritual in the
morning and arrived at the Shivir before noon. In all
programmes held in 60 years of the Sangh Ganga, there must
not have been even a single programme in which he was not
present.

‘One hour Shakha and twenty-three hours Sangh’ was the
motto of Bachubhai’s life. He was a sales tax and income tax
advocate. There has not been noticed an instance in which he
might have settled a case by taking a bribe of even a single paisa.

The income tax and sales tax officers respected him greatly.
Many years ago, a sales tax officer pointed out a wrong entry
worth ` 46 in the case of one of his clients, Tribhuvan Choksi.
An amount of ` 46 was no big deal in that period, but the Sangh’s
traits did not allow him to admit this error, and he went in
appeal. He won the case and kept the flag of his principles flying
high.

Pity was a natural emotion in the life of Bachubhai. During
his days as a student, he had suffered once from typhoid and
was quite serious. During those days, the late Gajananbhai
Devdhar, the father of Sanjeevanbhai Devdhar, was quite a
venerable name in the Sangh family. Gajananbhai himself served
Bachubhai a great deal. Due to this touch of pity, Bachubhai
always possessed a sentiment of pity in himself and he displayed
it whenever somebody in the Sangh family was afflicted from
some trouble. He would nurse the sick in the hospital without
caring whether it was day or night. There are a number of such
instances.

Bachubhai often said: I have three centres of devotion – the
most venerable Guruji, Mahant Dadaji of Karnali Akhada and
the late Vakil Saheb. The entry of Dadaji and Gita Mandir
occurred in the life of Bachubhai by the Bhabhi (Motiben) after