The Sign of the Cross

During the five-mile race today a gentleman was ahead of me. All of a sudden he stopped and turned around and said, "Are you Sri Chinmoy?" I was panting and no words were coming out of me. So I gave him a smile.
 
He said, "You are Sri Chinmoy!" and he made a cross sign on his forehead-not on his chest. He was very happy to see me. Then he ran with me for about two hundred metres. But he felt that he was a better runner so he went ahead of me. I was just behind him.
 
-12 July 1981 
 
 
 
[Source: "The Sign of the Cross" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 6, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1981.]