ULTRAMARATHON TO QUEBEC
Sri Chinmoy and a group of disciples took a journey to Quebec that ended up as a real ultra-marathon.
The bus left April 26 shortly after a 10-mile Sri Chinmoy Race in Flushing Meadow Park, Queens.
After a 13-hour trip, the group arrived in Quebec around three o’clock Sunday morning, in time for a short nap before a 13-kilometre Sri Chinmoy Run sponsored by the Quebec Centre.
Later in the day, Sri Chinmoy gave a concert at Laval University, and then the long trip home began.
The bus broke down near the U.S. border and was eventually abandoned. The Master and his students finally returned to Queens, in a chartered Greyhound, around dusk Monday.
Maintaining the lighthearted air that pervaded the whole trip, Sri Chinmoy invited the disciples to his house for an informal gathering, meditation and dinner, and it wasn’t until nearly midnight that the memorable Quebec ‘weekend’ came to an end.
Published in Anahata Nada, Vol. 6, No. 2-3-4 Feb.-March-April 1980