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Authenticity of a Swayamsevak
A few years ago, I came across a small occurrence. A Katha

(religious recitation of a holy text) was underway at Mahesana.
It was being organized to collect money for the famine victims.
A bag was being sent across people for the relief fund. In a corner
were seated a few rich, wealthy people, when a volunteer
approached them with the bag. An organizer noticed that the
bags being carried around by people bore a particular colour
and a number; but the man who approached these wealthy
people carried a different type of bag. They felt that he must be
a trickster who would flee away after collecting funds.
Therefore, the organizer caught hold of that man and took him
aside. He raged in fury as he was confident that he was a cheat.
He asked him that he had a bag of different colour, which bore
no number, then why he was collecting the funds. The organizer
kept shouting, but that man did not loose his cool, he looked
into the eyes of the organizer and said, “I am a Swayamsevak of
the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.” Listening to these words,
the organizer stepped back. His face lost gleam. He said,
“Brother, I am sorry to have uttered bitter words to you. I am
sorry for the mistake.” In our ordinary life, Swayamsevaks of
the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and authenticity have
become so interwoven that they have become inseparable. That
man did not need to say anything else in his defence. Later it
was found out that the man was right. The bag he carried too
was right and he was carrying out his duty well. After the
programme, a meeting was held of the volunteers. The reciting
saint too was present in it. The organizers were sentimental in
this meeting, and they expressed their emotions thus: “We all
beg pardon of our brother from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak
Sangh. We were wrong to disrespect a Swayamsevak and doubt
his authenticity and integrity.”

Not ‘You Do’, but ‘We Do’
Just think how the authenticity and integrity of a

Swayamsevak has remained inviolable after such a long period
of time too! What are the factors behind this concept? Was it