Problems Going Up

The other day while I was running in Flushing Meadow Park, a gentleman came up to me and inquired whether our marathon would be held in Flushing Meadow.
 
I said, "Yes."
 
Then he said, "In October?"
 
I said, "On the third of October."
 
He was very happy. So there are people like me who like to run on a flat course. We have problems going up. Of course, in the inner world if you have problems going up, then you are lost.
 
-9 September 1982 

[Source: "Problems Going Up" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 12, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1983.]