Sri Chinmoy honours Olympic sprinter Sudhahota Carl Lewis at Progress-Promise function hall in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
Weightlifting Prayers
by Sri Chinmoy
9:03 a.m.
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
May my mind every day
Run for God’s Eye.
May my heart every day
Sprint for God’s Heart.
May my life every day
Kiss the dust of my Lord’s Feet.
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
Before using seated double-arm machine up to 140 lbs. with each arm simultaneously
9:15 a.m.
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
May my God-love, God-devotion
And God-surrender
Increase every day
At least by an inch.
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
Before lifting 650 lbs. with each arm simultaneously three times (Total: 1,300 lbs.)
9:30 a.m.
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
Your infinite Grace is telling me
That my heart-hermitage
Is Your celestial Palace.
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
Before doing multiple one-arm pushes with 700 lbs.
Published in My Morning Soul-Body Prayers, part 12
Race Prayer
by Sri Chinmoy
at the Runners are Smiler 2-mile race in New York
My Lord,
To love running
In the morning
Is the beginning
Of my God-pleasing life.
Published in My Race-Prayers, part 1