Running Mantra

Every day, as soon as I start running, I have the same mantra: "Today let me go slowly."

But "today" becomes "every day," and then relaxation starts. Never does the mantra come: "Today let me go fast!"

-12 May 1983




[Source: "Running Mantra" in Sri Chinmoy, Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 14, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1985.]