Weightlifting Prayers
by Sri Chinmoy
6:02 a.m.
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
Please bless my heart
With a new name.
“My child, your heart’s new name
Will be:
The purity of silver tears.”
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
Before using a seated double-arm machine.
6:10 a.m.
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
Please, please, do bless my mind
With a new name.
“My child, your mind’s new name
Will be:
The purity of golden smiles.”
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
Before using a standing double-arm machine up to 200 lbs. with both arms simultaneously and 240 lbs. with each arm separately.
6:27 a.m.
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
Please, please, open my heart-door
Wide
With the Light
Of Your Compassion-Eye.
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
Before lifting 270 lbs. fifty-six times with one arm. (27 right, 27 left plus once each arm to maximum extension)
6:41 a.m.
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
Please, please, open my mind-door
Wide
With the Light
Of Your Forgiveness-Heart.
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
Before lifting 270 lbs. four times with both arms simultaneously. (Total: 540 lbs.)
Published in My Morning Soul-Body Prayers, part 5
Taking promotion
by Sri Chinmoy
I have now lifted 270 pounds 12 times in two days. I am not going to do it any more. I am wondering whether to take promotion and go to 300!
Published in A Mystic Journey in the Weightlifting World, part 3
Sri Chinmoy walks on the course of the Sri Chinmoy Six-Day and Ten-Day Race at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, New York.