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Venerate Ideal, Not Person or Book

The Sangh has approved this symbol of life
As its guiding Guru.
Doctor Saheb presented this Bhagwa Dhwaj
As our Guru, our ideal,
His comrades were not happy.
They looked at Doctor Saheb
Made from blood and flesh
And looked at him as their ideal,
They asked, “Why should we not
Adopt Doctor Saheb as our ideal?”
Our founder established dialogue with the spirit of organisation,
And established as our ideal
The indestructible eternal Bhagwa Dhwaj.
No man however great he might be
Cannot replace the national ideal.
Because man is only a quiet being
That flows in the infinite current of the nation.
It is meaningless to expect of man
However great to keep his fragrance
To eternity.
It is not possible for all people
To possess spirit of equal respect for an individual
Who is filled with finest possibilities.
Many people accept Sri Ram as their deity
And others Sri Krishna as their Lord,
And still others have their own deities.
So, the Sangh has chosen a symbol
That has eternal, omnipresent inspiration.

—Param Pujya Guruji