Photo by Maral Siegel

 

Sri Chinmoy offers a public demonstration of his weightlifting in a programme called ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart: The Body’s Fitness-Gong, The Soul’s Fulness-Song’ held at York College in Jamaica, Queens, New York. Just one of his impressive feats is a seated two-arm lift of 400 lbs., which he performs 100 times.

On this day, Sri Chinmoy would lift a total weight of 215,808 lbs. — a glimpse of the enormity of his achievements is summarised in the schedule of the order of lifts used at the event.