Photo by Prashphutita Greco

 

Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the New York Games, held at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium in Columbia University, New York.

 

Weightlifting Prayers

by Sri Chinmoy

6:02 p.m.

My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
May my soulful actions speak
And not my boastful words.
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!

Before doing a seated double-dumbbell lift with 360 lbs. New record.

 

6:09 p.m.

My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
Your timetable never fails.
You are always prompt
In answering my prayers.
It is I who fail again and again
In obeying You promptly.
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!

Before doing a standing double-dumbbell lift with 1,300 lbs. four times.


Published in My Morning Soul-Body Prayers, part 14