This circle in front of the Nilayam - this is a concrete representation of the symbol on the flag; you should all be told about this and you should in turn educate others about it. The first circle within the brick outline is as you can see, strewn with sand. That is Kama, mere wasteland, where nothing can grow, from which no sustenance can be procured. The next one is the circle of Krodha, enemy number two of man, Anger. It is represented here as a hardy tuber plant with many leaves, which though cut often beyond recognition sprouts at the next fall of rain. Anger is like that; you feel you have uprooted it, but let your pride be injured or your wish opposed; it sprouts again. Its roots are tentacles difficult to escape from. Every Navaratri, the thousands of Bhaktas who walk about here trample the plants and leave no trace. But when the Birthday Festival comes a month or two later the same sprouts again and grows into a sizeable height. That is the way anger grips a man. It grows into hatred and vengeance, the two red steps that you see as the next two concentric circles. When someone stands across your path, you hate him; when someone refuses to be your accomplice, you hate him. Acts of commission as well as omission cause hatred. That is why we have two steps here. Crossing the sands of greed and lust, the wilds of anger, climbing the heights of hatred and vengefullness, the Sadhaka comes to the green meadow of Prema. You can see that circle of broad green grass, attractively embellished with good trough and virtues, which refresh and satisfy. Beyond that, we have the broad expanse of Shanti, Quiet, where all agitations cease and the mind is at rest in its own silence. Now is the chance: establish yourself in Yoga, the Sadhana of spiritual union with the Universal Power, the Absolute Wisdom, the Eternal Verity. The Consciousness ascends through the six centres marked on the Yogananda in the centre of the circle, and then, watch what happens. The lotus of the heart blooms, the petals unfold, the fragrance permeates the Universe, the rays of the Sun are inhaled, and... as you see represented here, ... the Atmajyoti, the Splendour of the Atma, the unsullied Effulgence illumines you and everything else in one all-embracing flame.

Contemplate on this symbol; make it alive in your consciousness; that is what I mean when I say hoist the flag on your mind. You will find it highly beneficial. When this flag waves happily with the wind on the Nilayam, it must also wave happily on your consciousness, calling you to further effort and further Sadhana. (SSS Vol.2, pp. 215-216)

After long searches here and there, in temples and in churches, in earths, and in heavens at last you come back. Completing the circle from where you have started, to your own soul and find that He, for whom you have been seeking all ova the world, for whom you have been weeping and praying in churches and temples, on whom you were looking as the mystery of all mysteries, shrouded in the clouds, in the nearest of the near, is your own-self, the reality of your life, body and soul. (Ddd, p. 64)