Learn how to lift a car
Randwick resident, Vidagdha Bennett, who recently returned from holidaying in New York, reports that she participated in what must be one of the more unusual feats of strength we have heard.
Her meditation teacher, Sri Chinmoy, lifted up a Buick sedan containing 5 people and Vidagdha was one of them.
The combined weight of the car and its human cargo totalled more than 4,400 pounds.
Vidagdha says the experience was like going for a short ride in a very swift elevator.
“Actually being inside the car as it went up brought home to me just how awesome the lift really was,” she said.
Sri Chinmoy, who is well-known for his peace meditations at the United Nations and his many peace concerts around the world, took up weightlifting 15 months ago while resting a running injury.
Since then, he has worked with heavier and heavier weights — both conventional and unconventional. Not only cars, but elephants, grand pianos, horses and barbers’ chairs are among his latest adventures!
Vidagdha, who runs the Sri Chinmoy meditation centre in Marcel Avenue, says that Sri Chinmoy undertakes these feats of self-transcendence “to inspire other people to bring forward their highest potential through prayer and meditation.”
For more information, kindly contact the Sri Chinmoy Centre.
Caption:
Fifty-five-year-old meditation teacher Sri Chinmoy lifting a 220-pound dumbbell with one hand at his home in New York.
Published in the Randwick Reporter, Issue 63, October 20, 1986
Sri Chinmoy’s interview with radio personality Berit Berling is broadcast on Swedish National Radio in Stockholm, Sweden. The interview was recorded during his visit to Stockholm from 14-16 October 1990.