The Drum Player

Once while running in Flushing Meadow Park, I passed by a fellow who was beating a drum. The park authorities were asking him to play more softly. When I ran by, the young man said to me, "You run so fast, so fast!"
 
-9 July 1982 
 
  
 
[Source: "The Drum Player" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 11, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1983.]