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that my talk would be over right at five o’clock, and I had asked
him if he would face any difficulty in this way. He himself had
told me that it would be a fine thing.” After this, Guruji showed
his wristwatch to the Swayamsevaks which struck sharp five at
just that time. What we mean to say that he used to take notice
of even tiny, insignificant things like taking the bus by a
Swayamsevak, even during such a busy schedule.

In a meeting, he was enquiring of Swayamsevaks how the
Sangh work was progressing. At that, a volunteer stood up and
said that the Sangh work was not expanding well. The Param
Pujya Guruji asked why it was so. The volunteer said, “My
volunteers do not work.” At this, Guruji said: “No, it is wrong
to imagine so. You should replace the words ‘my volunteers’
with the words ‘my comrades’.” Thus, he did not approve of
any distinction. He did not accept the distinction between official
and volunteer, leader and follower. He approved of only the
united whole. He has paid attention to such minute details in
developing the Sangh and moulding the Swayamsevaks. This
hard work lies in the basis of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
We can find an effervescence, an illumination, a lamp of light
in his devotion towards his work.

Lamps Numerous – Light One
What type of work does the Sangh do? When we light a

lamp, light emanates from it. The Param Pujya Guruji says: “One
lamp should be lit from another, and thus should numerous
lamps be lit.” This is the express manifestation of the
metaphysics of Shankaracharya’s Advaitism, in which lies no
distinction. Just notice the fact that the light cannot be
distinguished whether a lamp is lit or a number of them are lit.
Science has not developed a device by which light emanating
from different lamps can be distinguished as coming from a
particular lamp, or if light is coming from a lamp lit by oil or
ghee, or if it is being lit in a silver or earthen lamp – we can find
no distinction. A lamp can be distinct, but not its light. The lamp,
in the form of Swayamsevaks, right from Kashmir to
Kanyakumari, from Atack to Cuttack, is lit. A resplendent source