Sri Chinmoy practises with a 27-lb. shot put at a beachside park in Hawaii.
Weightlifting Prayers
by Sri Chinmoy
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
7:47 a.m. Before using a seated double-arm machine up to 150 lbs. with each arm simultaneously.
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
I must love God the Creator
And serve God the creation
Simultaneously
If I want to please God completely
In His own Way.
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
8:01 a.m. Before lifting 350 lbs. with each arm simultaneously. (Total: 700 lbs.)
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
My soul-enlightenment-Maker
Is
My heart-attachment-breaker.
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
8:06 a.m. Before doing sixty-eight one-arm pushes with 500 lbs. (30 right, 38 left)
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
You are telling me
That in our spiritual life
All our heart-ultramarathons
Are sponsored by God Himself.
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
Published in My Morning Soul-Body Prayers, part 11