Spiritual Master, Sri Chinmoy
NEW YORK:
While the rest of Queens watered their lawns, and puttered around their garden, spiritual Master, Sri Chinmoy, was lifting 400 lbs. with one arm and later that day hoisting a car off the ground with just his legs.Sri Chinmoy, better known for his work at the United Nations in New York City, for world peace, hoisted off the ground recently a car loaded with five of his students altogether weighing 4,422 lbs. using only his calf muscles. It was his way of celebrating another weight-lifting feat he had accomplished earlier that morning: lifting 400 lbs with one arm.
The 55 year old muscle man who weighs in at a slender 160 lbs. has until recently been better known as a writer, composer, painter and marathon runner in addition to his leading peace meditations for the delegates and staff at the United Nations.
He took up weight lifting to demonstrate how meditation and spiritual practice can be effectively applied to virtually any field.
When he began 15 months ago, he could barely lift 40 lbs. with one arm. He began calf-lifting training in June of this year with 400 lb. weights, and quickly moved up to 1000 lbs. and then 1500 lbs. His recent car lift was held for seven seconds and done in a park in Queens, New York.
Sri Chinmoy’s rapid progress in weight lifting has astonished the weight lifting world. Bill Pearl, five times “Mr. Universe,” for example calls him, “truly unique and special.” Earlier this summer, Pearl and several power lifting celebrities visited Sri Chinmoy in New York for a two day celebration honoring his 1st year of weight lifting.
Published on page 2 of Carksburg Telegram, Community News, October 13 1986