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condition of the country. One-thousand-year-long slavery had
resulted into a number of evils in the Hindu society. He had not
mentioned about these even a bit. Guruji had not kept awake
thinking it to be a difficult proposition. Doctor Saheb had neither
sung any patriotic songs, nor did he teach them. He just said in
his spontaneous expression: “Madhavrao, you have to take the
reigns of this work.”

Just for a moment, imagine the time that it was. What types
of thoughts must Doctor Saheb have in his mind when he
assigned Guruji with such a great responsibility? What type of
information must he have sought? How many people must he
have examined? When we sit down to think about this time, we
are prone to think at times that Doctor Saheb must have kept
Guruji awake all night in order to teach him lessons in
Hinduism, must have acquainted him with the finer details of
the decline of the Hindu society, must have done everything
possible in order to inculcate the spirit to serve the society in
place of going after attainment of God and self-realization. In
the year 1940, it was just the beginning for the Sangh as its form
and influence were being shaped then. Common people had a
number of queries in their minds. What could be the factor that
could bridge Doctor Saheb and Guruji? Amongst scores of future
uncertainties, Doctor Saheb must have some element of faith in
Guruji so as to lead the Sangh to historic development. How
effective must have been Doctor Saheb’s quality of testing a
person and Guruji’s transparent personality. Guruji, who was
completely absorbed in the path of spirituality, changed his path
in order to devote all his life in the service of the society. Guruji
invested every particle of his body and every moment of his
life in realizing the responsibility that Doctor Saheb had
assigned him. It was only a small sentence by Doctor Saheb:
“Madhav, now you have to take the reigns of all this.” What an
amazing incident it was! How magnificent the test was! How
excellent the foresight was! What type of trust it was! Yes, this
was what we call the qualities of Guruji.

The spontaneity with which Swami Akhandanand had
asked Guruji to take care of his hair, the same spontaneity was