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Resource name: /The Ashram/Inspiring Connections/Lokamanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak/A Great Mind,a Great will.htm
A Great Mind, a Great Wi11*
A GREAT mind, a great
will, a great and preeminent leader of men has passed away from the
field of his achievement and labour. To the mind of his country
Lokamanya Tilak was much more, for he had become to it a considerable
part of itself, the embodiment of its past efforts and the head of its
present struggle for a free and greater life. His achievement and
personality have put him amidst the first rank of historic and
significant figures. He was one who built much rapidly out of little
beginnings, a creator of great things out of an unworked material. The
creations he left behind him were a new and strong and self-
Resource name: /The Ashram/Inspiring Connections/Lokamanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak/Tilak and Ganesh festival.htm
Ganesh Chaturthi also known as
Tilak & Sri Ganesh festival
Ganesh Chaturthi also known as Vinayaka
Chaturthi, is the Hindu festival celebrated on the
occasion of birthday of Lord Ganesha, the son of Shiva and
Parvati, who is believed to bestow his presence on earth for all
his devotees in the duration of this festival. It is the day
Shiva declared his son Ganesha as superior to all the gods.
Ganesha is widely worshipped as the god of wisdom, prosperity
and good fortune and t
Resource name: /The Ashram/Inspiring Connections/Lokamanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak/Sri Aurobindo on Tilak.htm
Sri Aurobindo
on Bal Gangadhar Tilak
NEITHER
Mr. Tilak nor his speeches really require any presentation or
foreword. His speeches are, like the featureless Brahman, self-luminous.
Straightforward, lucid, never turning aside from the point which they
mean to hammer in or wrapping it up in ornamental verbiage, they read
like a series of self-evident propositions. And Mr. Tilak himself, his
career, his place in Indian politics are also a self-evident
proposition, a hard fact baffling and dismaying in the last degree to
those to whom his name has been anathema and his increasing pre-eminence
figured as a portent of evil
Lokmanya Tilak (Marathi,
born as Keshav Gangadhar Tilak (23 July 1856 – 1 August
1920), was an Indian nationalist, teacher, social reformer,
lawyer and freedom fighter who was the first popular
leader of the Indian Independence Movement. Met Sri
Aurobindo Several times prior to his arrival in
Pondicherry and were closely associated during the freedom
struggle. In The British colonial authorities
derogatorily called him "Father of the Indian
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