Without Your Blessings

After Gary Fanelli won the marathon, I went to crown him with the laurel wreath at the finish line. He bowed to me and said, "Guru, without your blessings I could not have done it." Later he told me, "I am so honoured that you invited me."
 
-3 October 1982 
 
  
 
[Source: "Without Your Blessings" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 12, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1983.]