Weightlifting prayers

 

My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
Two giant question marks
Stand before me:
Do I love God only?
Will I be able to realise God
In this incarnation?
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!

– Sri Chinmoy

 

Sri Chinmoy offers this prayer at 6:30 a.m. in Curitiba, Brazil, before using seated double-arm machine up to 140 lbs. with each arm simultaneously.

 

My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
Your Compassion-Eye fondly
And sleeplessly cradles
My unconditional surrender-life.
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!

– Sri Chinmoy

 

Sri Chinmoy offers this prayer at 6:47 a.m. in Curitiba, Brazil, before lifting 400 lbs. with each arm simultaneously three times. (Total: 800 lbs.) New record.

 

My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
Only a fully awakened heart
And
A fully surrendered life
Can make the God-climbing progress.
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!

– Sri Chinmoy

 

Sri Chinmoy offers this prayer in Curitiba, Brazil, before doing fifty-nine one-arm pushes with 500 lbs. (28 right, 31 left).

 

My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
My highest Heaven
Is where
My God-devotion cries.
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!

– Sri Chinmoy

 

Sri Chinmoy offers this prayer at 7:11 a.m. Curitiba, Brazil, before using bench press machine up to 100 lbs. with each arm simultaneously.

My Morning Soul-Body Prayers, part 11.