Got a Match?

I was running at about five o'clock by the canal. A young boy came up to me and asked me for a match. Then he asked if I had a cigarette. I just smiled at him.
 
21 December 1979 
 

[Source: "Got a Match?" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 3, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1980.]