Some Fast Walkers

Some were running fifty metres and walking fifty metres. You won't believe it, but three elderly men walked faster than I could run. I was running-"Huh, huh!"-and they were walking, but my running was not as good as their walking.
 
One of them was mischievous enough to laugh at me. He was laughing at me because I was running and he was beating me while walking. But after two miles I saw him; he had become so tired that he went to drink ERG or water, and he did not appear for a long time.
 
-7 October 1979 
 

 
[Source: "Some Fast Walkers" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 2, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1979.]