76. Nothing is too small, No activity is Trivial or Less Important:

P.P. Doctorjee followed this maxim in his own life. During the first Nagpur visit of the famous revolutionary Freedom Fighter "Veer Savarkar" (1937), P.P. Doctorjee arranged for a mammoth function. He worked extremely hard (that was his custom) and even hand-wrote and prepared the invitation cards, for all the dignitaries/invitees to the Sangh function welcoming Veer Savarkar.

Still, some kid swayamsevaks did not take the task of distributing the invitations too  seriously, and many invitation cards (so painstakingly hand prepared by P.P. Doctorjee) never reached those people for whom they were intended. Some dignitaries, such as Shri Baba Saheb Ghatate, could not attend the Sangha function since they did not know about it (Shri Ghatate had not become a swayamsevak yet).

That night, P.P. Doctorjee came across Shri Ghatateji at a dinner arranged in honor of Veer Savarkar. P.P.Doctorjee gently asked him why he could not make it to the Sangha function. Shri Ghatate expressed his surprise, and said that he would have definitely attended the Sangha function had he known about it. P.P. Doctorjee was shocked, as he realized that some swayamsevaks had not delivered the invitations. P.P. Doctorjee expressed his disappointment to Shri Krishna Rao Mohrir, a senior swayamsevak who happened to be at the dinner function.

Later, Shri Krishnaraoji inquired about this with the swayamsevaks entrusted with the invitations delivery. When they opened their schoolbags, several undelivered invitations were seen! Shri Ghatate's invitation was one among them. Shri Krishnaraoji explained to the kids, P.P.Doctorjee's loss of face with Shri Ghatate on the previous day. All swayamsevaks felt deeply ashamed about this.

Presently, P.P.Doctorjee himself arrived. In very mild words, he put the swayamsevaks minds at ease but he also explained to them that they must never neglect duties entrusted to them.

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