The Saint

After I had run 400 metres more, I saw a group of boys standing opposite one of my disciples' houses. One white boy was so excited to see me running. "Oh, Sri Chinmoy!" he said.
 
A black boy said, "No good, he takes away everybody's money."
 
The white boy said, "No, my father said he is a saint like our Christian saints.
 
He never charges any money."
 
I didn't want to enter into their conversation, so I just kept going.
 
-29 September 1979  
  

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