Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your family, work together instead of working only for your own. The step beyond is to serve humanity and the next step is to serve God.
Bal Gangadhar TilakIf we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.
Bal Gangadhar TilakOur nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak