Sri Chinmoy meets with champion marathon runner Robert De Castella and his wife Gaylene Clews at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, Queens, New York. Sri Chinmoy had personally invited Rob De Castella to be the guest speaker as part of a regular series of talks given by elite athletes.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a lift of 503-lb. for the first time, using only his right arm, in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
My 500-pound Story
by Sri Chinmoy
How tired one can become coming back from Manhattan! While coming home from the city this afternoon, the car didn’t move; there was such traffic! I became so tired. But then when I got home, I lifted 503 pounds with my one-arm lift.
Usually when I lift, after my first and second attempts I do not sit down. Then, after my third attempt I sit down on my exercise chair for a few seconds and concentrate to get added blessing-strength. This time, when I was sitting down after my third, fourth, fifth and sixth attempts, Mother Kali came. She was blessing me and caressing my head.
Afterwards, when I called India, my sister said that in a dream she had seen Mother Kali blessing me. My sister said she had been worrying like anything since my 300-pound lift. On the one hand she is full of tremendous joy and pride because of my weightlifting achievements. On the other hand, she is dying of worries.
Before I started lifting this evening, my weightlifting prayer was very significant:
My Lord Supreme,
May Your absolute Victory supreme
Be proclaimed at every moment
In and through my aspiration-heart
And my dedication-life.
Published in My Weightlifting Tears and Smiles, part 1