Weightlifting Prayer
by Sri Chinmoy
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
Only because of Your Heart’s
All-fulfilling Blessing-Grace,
Today I am my life’s
Smiling face.
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
Sri Chinmoy offers this prayer at 6:22 a.m. before lifting 170 lbs. with both arms simultaneously (total: 340 lbs.) — a new record.
Published in My Morning Soul-Body Prayers, part 3
Mike Katz’s Prophecy Comes True
by Sri Chinmoy
When Mike Katz heard that I had lifted up 160 pounds in each arm, he said, “I am amazed but not surprised. For Sri Chinmoy, 170-pound or 180-pound dumbbells in each arm would not surprise me.”
His prophecy was so powerful. In two days it has come true. Today I have lifted up 170 pounds in each arm. One hundred and seventy was my goal for April 13th and I have got it today.
It is true that after one hundred years people will wonder whether I am one man or ten. In each field I have acted like a cyclone!
Published in A Mystic Journey in the Weightlifting World, part 2
The Essence of a Miracle
by Sri Chinmoy
For me, if ten million people cannot do something and then one individual comes who can do it, it is a miracle. If millions and millions of people cannot do something — on any plane — and one individual does it, it is a miracle. Only our mind gets stuck, that is why we do not use the word. If one individual writes an immortal song, a song that comes from another world — like “Ave Maria” — then, according to me, that is a miracle. Look at all the unimaginable things President Gorbachev and President Mandela have done — are those things not miracles? Sudhahota’s nine gold medals — is that immortal achievement not a miracle? In so many fields, miracles are taking place if we have the eyes to see them.
Published in A Mystic Journey in the Weightlifting World, part 2