Because I Need

Sri Chinmoy gave the following inspirational talk at a memorial service for former Ambassador Allard Lowenstein held at the United Nations.

Because I need God's Love,

God's Compassion saves me.

Because I need God's Compassion,

God's Forgiveness illumines me.

Because I need God's Forgiveness,

God's Satisfaction inspires me.

Because I need God's Satisfaction,

God's Oneness liberates me.

Because I need God's Oneness,

God gives me His Eternity's Boat,

His Infinity's Sea

And

His Immortality's Shore.

Because I need God's Boat, God's Sea

And God's Shore,

God gives me two things that He loves most

In His entire creation:

A sleepless cry and a deathless smile.

21 March 1980