Quotes
"Blessed are you mother, for having borne a son such as he". Mahatma Gandhi to Sadashiva Rao's mother when he met her soon after Sadhashiv Rao's death.
"Sadashiv Rao’s was a life of single-minded piety and utter self-sacrifice. There were innumerable institutions that he brought into being and assisted through difficult times. Not a few of these were for the education of the young and the relief of the indigent and lowly—objects that always lay closest to his heart."
Born one of the richest men in Kanara, when he died he was one of the poorest. Having given away very pie he could call his own to some Congress cause or other, he had reduced himself to penury. But never had penury so gentle a smile for a companion. Never a word of regret for what he had given away nor one of recrimination or anger ever passed through his lips though transgressed against he was. When he was gone, the only strictures passed against him were by those who measured everything by the yardsticks of money—worldly wealth. "Generous to a fault" was their verdict. The verdict was correct."
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