Weightlifting

 

My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme,

The doubt of the human mind

Darkens and blights

The aspiration-heart.

The faith of the human mind

Brightens and strengthens

The dedication-life.

My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!

– Sri Chinmoy

 

Sri Chinmoy offers this prayer at 3:50 a.m.before lifting 400 lbs. fifty times with two arms and one hundred and two times with one arm (52 right, 50 left in five sets).

Published in My Morning Soul-Body Prayers, part 2

 

Running

Sri Chinmoy participates in a Runners are Smilers race in Singapore. Due to a persistent, painful knee injury, he walks just one mile in a time of 21:09.