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.