The Running Master

People who don't run marathons feel sad that they don't run them, and people who run marathons feel sad that they do run them. So many problems human beings have! Why do they have to create additional problems by entering into the world of marathoning? By running a marathon has anybody realised God? I don't think any spiritual Master other than me has ever run a marathon. Perhaps they were wise people. Perhaps it is because I am not wise that I run marathons.

-31 January 1983



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