Reaching the Stadium

The last three hundred metres of the marathon were in the stadium. You did not even have to run around the whole track-just three hundred metres. I said, "For God's sake, let me run."

But when I tried to take one step running, there was no power inside my lungs. I had no strength. Walking was far better.

-24 January 1983



[Source: "Reaching the Stadium" in Sri Chinmoy, Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 13, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1983.]