Everything Can Be a Blessing

Today I went to Yonkers to run my hill course. Vidhu and Databir were with me. After some time, Databir entered into his trance. Vidhu was not feeling well. It was so hot. What an experience! Instead of running, I walked four miles.

Always you have to take advantage of the situation. If I want to run on 150th Street, I can do it again and again and again. But during the trip to Yonkers, I will write poems and do many things, whereas I may not get inspiration at that hour to write poems in my house. So I force myself to go to Yonkers to run the four-mile hill course there.

It usually takes 45 minutes to drive there. Today it took one hour and fifteen minutes. While in the car, I could have slept, played my flute or read the newspaper. But I took the opportunity to dictate poems. Everything can be a blessing! You can have a comfortable life and stay home and accomplish nothing.But each time I go to Yonkers I can dictate 40 or 50 poems.

-17 June 1983




[Source: "Everything Can Be a Blessing" in Sri Chinmoy, Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 14, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1985.]