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Vasantrao was a man of action, and learning. His mother
tongue was Marathi, but he adopted Gujarati as if it were his
mother tongue. He had acquired correctness and purity of the
language due to his association with the Sangh; moreover, he
was an authorized signatory of the Sangh in the region. Looking
at his aptitude in learning, he was assigned the responsibility
of the Sadhana weekly. He would go about the town on his bicycle
to propagate and expand the Sadhana in order to draw more
and more readers to it. He also made effort to seek
advertisements in order to make the weekly financially stronger.
He continued to do this work for close to 25 years.

Vasantrao was a man of learning. He was an ardent seeker
of knowledge. As soon as he was assigned the responsibility of
the Sadhana, he started to make effort in order to cultivate the
required qualities in himself. To do his job well, he did a course
in journalism when he was as old as 45 years. It requires courage
for a man of his age to study sitting together with children aged
18-20 years, but he did it perfectly well. His unfathomable loyalty
to his work alone gave him this courage.

Vasantrao continued to realize the mantra Jahan kum, wahan
hum (we are where there is a deficiency), in his diverse ways.
During his tours, he would deliver the news like a reporter,
change information into news and, at times, take over the
responsibility of the editor on his return from tour. He would
sometimes proofread, and sometimes sit down to paste
wrappers and stamps in order to send the weekly by post. He
even packed the weekly in bundles as well as delivered the
bundles to the post office.

Vasantrao led a ‘happy-go-lucky’ life. He led a life free from all
types of bonds. Due to his forgetfulness, numerous instances used
to take place in the Sangh life that were the source of humour.

If you needed to understand ‘to die for ideology’, then you
would need to look at the focus that Vasantrao had for the
Sadhana. The special characteristics of his life were to fill
everything with lightness and make feel the entire life green