You Have to Drink!

In the Boston Marathon I ran for a while and then walked slower than the slowest. An old man grabbed me by the shoulder and said, "Your heart is working very hard. You have to drink!"

I said, "No, thank you."

But he said, "You have to!" and he forced me to drink.

Because I was tired, he sympathised with me.

-20 April 1983




[Source: "You Have to Drink!" in Sri Chinmoy, Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 14, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1985.]