Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.
Bal Gangadhar TilakReligion 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 TilakIt may be providence's will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak