On stage at a special celebration at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York, Sri Chinmoy looks at the photograph of himself taken earlier in the day lifting two 500-lb. dumbbells — a total of 1,000 lbs. — overhead simultaneously, at his home gym in Jamaica, New York.
Weightlifting prayer
by Sri Chinmoy
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
What is Your Grace?
Your Grace
Is Your Omnipotence-Embrace.
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
Sri Chinmoy offers this prayer at 8:06 a.m. before lifting 500 lbs. with each arm simultaneously seven times (Total: 1,000 lbs.) New record.
Published in My Morning Soul-Body Prayers, part 12
The First Day of my 1,000-pound Lift
by Sri Chinmoy
Today I lifted 1,000 pounds with both arms for the first time — 500 in each arm. When it came to the fourth lift, I turned on the camera and it went so well. Then I lifted it four more times.
Can you imagine — 1,000 pounds! Is it believable? It is not physical force; it is supernatural. Luckily my back is all right. No wonder why I am shrinking! From 5’8” why did I have to come to 5’7”?
Normally when weightlifters reach a certain weight, a very appreciable weight, they advance by ten pounds at a time. Many years ago I also did that. Now I go by 100 pounds.
Today my bodyweight is 170½ pounds. So I have lifted almost six times my own bodyweight. No matter how you look at it, the fact is that I am dashing against 1,000 pounds with my 170 pounds.
I am so lucky that today the still pictures worked and the video also worked.
Published in A Mystic Journey in the Weightlifting World, part 4