The lion with Durga on it is the symbol of the Divine Consciousness acting through a divinised physical-vital and vital-emotional force. The lion is the attribute of the Goddess Durga, the conquering and protecting aspect of the Universal Mother. The Death's Head is the symbol of the Asura (the adversary of the gods) vanquished and killed by the Divine Power. page 389-90 , Letters on Yoga , volume 22 , SABCL

Nature is very largely what you make of her or can make of her. page 476 , Letters on Yoga , volume 22 , SABCL

The strength of Europe is in details, the strength of Asia in synthesis. Page 843, Bande Mataram , volume 1, SABCL Asia is the custodian of the world's peace of mind, the physician of the maladies which Europe generates. Page 842, Bande Mataram , volume 1, SABCL The East alone has some knowledge of the truth, the East alone can teach the West, the East alone can save mankind. Through all these ages Asia has been seeking for a light within, and whenever she has been blessed with a glimpse of what she seeks, a great religion has been born, Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, Mahomedanism with a

Celibacy is one thing and freedom from sex-pushes is another. These have to be conquered and got rid of, but if freedom from them were made a test of fitness to go on, I wonder how many could be declared fit for my yoga. The will to conquer must be there, but the elimination of the sex-impulse is one of the most difficult things for human nature, and if it takes time, that is only natural. page 1528 , Letters on Yoga , volume 24 , SABCL

*W*E HAVE felt considerable delicacy hitherto in writing on the prosecution of Srijut Bepin Chandra Pal for refusing to take the oath in the /Bande Mataram /Case, as that prosecution has arisen directly out of our own. In fact, all the more important events of recent occurrence in Calcutta have been so closely connected, directly or indirectly, with this case that we have been practically compelled to keep our lip's closed on current public affairs. The imprisonment of the Nationalist orator and propagandist, the most prominent public figure of the New Party in Bengal , is nevertheless a matter of capital importance on which we cannot remain silent

Vices are simply an overflow of energy in irregulated channels. page 497 , Letters on Yoga , volume - 22 , SABCL

The flute is the symbol of a call – usually the spiritual call. The flute is the call of the Divine. The conch is the symbol of the spiritual call. The conch is the call to realisation. The conch is perhaps the proclamation of victory. page 977, Letters on Yoga , volume - 23 , SABCL

The Aswattha usually symbolises the cosmic manifestation. page 970, Letters on Yoga , volume - 23 , SABCL

All love, indeed, that is adoration has a spiritual force behind it, and even when it is offered ignorantly and to a limited object, something of that splendour appears through the poverty of the rite and the smallness of its issues. For love that is worship is at once an aspiration and a preparation: it can bring even within its small limits in the Ignorance a glimpse of a still more or less blind and partial but surprising realisation; for there are moments when it is not we but the One who loves and is loved in us, and even a human passion can be uplifted and glorified