Vijayadashami 1941 Address — M. S. Golwalkar विजयादशमी १९४१

The day

• Date: 29 September 1941 — the calendar date of Vijayadashami; our sources do not record the exact day of the gathering
• Place: Nagpur
• Address by: M. S. Golwalkar

What the address covered

The Shri Guruji Samagra gives a short summary of Golwalkar's 1941 Vijayadashami talk. He recalled that Hedgewar had founded the Sangh on this day to organise a divided Hindu society under the saffron flag. He said the times were grim and that a thousand years of decline could not be undone overnight, but he was confident Hindu society would regain its former glory. In the Shastra Puja talk he said a society is more than a crowd. He described conversion as a drain on Hindu strength and called the worship of strength every society's first duty.

How sure is this?

This account rests mainly on one source, listed below; details may be incomplete. For these years the main source is the organisation's own compilation of Golwalkar's talks (Shri Guruji Samagra), which prints edited summaries rather than verbatim transcripts.

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