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In a Sangha Baithak
for elderly people, some leading thinkers came forward and said to
P.P.Doctorjee: “Doctor Saheb, today, the immensely needed Sangha work is flourishing,
because of the virtue of your personal merit, self-sacrifice and hard work.
However, what will happen in the future, after you have passed away?
Society’s need for Sangha work and the nourishment it provides will continue
unabated. Therefore, today, while you are still alive and well enough to
guide us, we strongly suggest that Sangha should form a Central Governing
Committee, which can continue the work in the event of your disability or
death.”
P.P.Doctorjee calmly replied: “Please do not think that Sangha work is
flourishing today only due to my virtuousness (“Punya”) or contribution
alone. I certainly do not think so. I am but a very ordinary man. I do not
have any special qualities. However, if we imagine for a moment that you are
right, and Sangha work depends solely on my virtue to flourish and for its
continued growth, it will require other equally virtuous people. It would
inevitably perish, if such people were to be unavailable. Sangha work today
flourishes without any such “Central Governing Committee.”
Sangha work is, verily the creation of swayamsevaks, patriotic citizens with
great integrity, unity and self-discipline. P.P.Doctorjee was so confident of
the swayamsevaks that he was able to assert their future success, even after
his own death.
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