Closed-Mouthed

At the two-mile point two women were running near me. When I was passing by, one of them was so excited to see me. She said to the other one, "Do you know who that is?"
 
The other one said, "Who?"
 
O God, the first woman who saw me answer because I was coming very near them and she didn't want me to hear. Perhaps she was afraid of the pronunciation, afraid that she would be embarrassed.
 
Then, when I was about five metres ahead of them, the lady said, "Sri Chinmoy." But when I was running next to them, she wouldn't tell her friend who I was.
 
-12 July 1981 
 
 
 
[Source: "Closed-Mouthed" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 6, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1981.]