Can I Shake Hands With You?

While I was practising before the start of the Long Island Marathon, someone came up to me and asked, "Are you Master Sri Chinmoy?"

I said, "Yes."

He said, "Can I shake hands with you?"

So I shook hands with him. He was saying to his wife, "He is such a kind man."

At the start of the marathon, one lady ran with me for three or four miles. She was wearing all yellow. Then she asked Lavanya if I was Sri Chinmoy.

-1 May 1983




[Source: "Can I Shake Hands With You?" in Sri Chinmoy, Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 14, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1985.]