Give Me His Cramps

In the Foliage Run a young man had given up after five miles. He was massaging his hamstring. Whenever I see a young runner getting cramps during a race, I pray to God, "O God, give me his cramps." But God doesn't listen to my prayers.
 
-10 October 1981 
 
 
 
[Source: "Give Me His Cramps" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 7, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1982.]