United Nations Day

Tribute by Sri Chinmoy
in the Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium
at the United Nations, New York

 

Today is U.N. Day. What does UN Day signify? It signifies a day of universal hope, a day of universal promise, a day of universal peace and a day of universal oneness. Hope brightens humanity's present deplorable fate. Promise encourages humanity's speed, which embodies success and progress. Peace enlightens humanity's age-old ignorance. And satisfaction, which is founded upon oneness, the oneness-family that we would like to live in, will one day dawn in our aspiring heart and our dedicated life.

To us, the United Nations is not a mere building, it is not a mere concept, it is not wishful thinking or even a dream. It is a reality which is growing, glowing and manifesting its radiance here, there, all-where, throughout the length and breadth of the world. All those who are sincerely crying for a oneness-family, according to their receptivity, are receiving light from the soul of the United Nations.


Published in The Inner Role of the United Nations

 

What Do I Need?

by Sri Chinmoy

 

The stone existence in me
Needs more awareness.

The plant existence in me
Needs more confidence.

The animal existence in me
Needs more compassion.

The human existence in me
Needs more forgiveness-capacity.

The divine existence in me
Needs more aspiration-beauty.

The supreme Existence in me
Needs more satisfaction-delight.

And what do I need?
I need the fragrance of surrender-life.


Published in Aurora-Flora

 

9.

My Lord Beloved Supreme,
It is now so clear to me that
You do not care for me.
My Lord, You do not care for me.
Is it because my mind is insincere?
Is it because my heart is impure?
Is it because I criticise You
Inwardly and outwardly every day?
Or are there some other reasons
Why You do not care for me?

"My child, if it is true that
I do not care for you,
Then it is not because of
your mind's insincerity,
Not because of your heart's impurity,
Not because of your cruel criticism of Me,
But because you dare to live
And do succeed in living
Without My Heart's Compassion,
Love, Blessing and Light."

— Sri Chinmoy


Published in Twenty-Five Aspiration-Flames