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Baliram Hedgewar, whom we call by the name of Dr. Hedgewar.
He had an idea that there should be some people in the service
of the nation. Who will build the nation if everybody is engaged
in his own individual tasks of earning livelihood, living a
personal life and procreating offsprings? Who will then guard
the Mother India?

Many people those days were busy to serve these purposes
from political viewpoint. We cannot negate their contribution,
however, on the other hand, Dr. Hedgewar was of the firm view
that politics ultimately leads to fragmenting the society,
individual selfishness comes to the fore at one or the other stage.
In it, good qualities are little spread, the people whose self
interests are not served, they make an effort to prove even the
virtuous as evil. This concept must have resided in his mind;
and this seems to be the precise reason that he kept away from
politics and established the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to
achieve the exalted goals of nation-building and individual-
building. At that time, he had the company of only a few people,
but there is nothing great or small – we must not think that
way.

I got an opportunity to visit two places – one is the banyan
tree in Kolkata and the other Kabir Vat (banyan) on the banks
of the Narmada. When I visited these two places, I wondered
on seeing such massive branches and offshoots that were
touching the ground. They had grown so much that it was hard
to find the source stem, and I enquired this fact from an officer
present there. He said that it was difficult to find out the source
stem; perhaps the previous officers would be able to point it
out. However, the branches had grown to such an extent that
they all appeared to be the source stem. How fortunate must
have been the seed of this tree, from which came forth a tree,
and each branch that came forth from this tree transformed itself
into a complete banyan tree. It is hard to know who sowed the
first seed, nobody knows this man.

This banyan tree had not been created intently. A bird
somewhere might have partaken of a fruit, and it might have
felt the natural desire to discharge its faeces, and this discharge