I Run and They Run

I was on 150th Street, returning from my morning run. I had just passed a few of my girl disciples.
 
As I was approaching the bus stop, a woman with thickly painted lipstick said to me, "Master, Master, why do you have to run? Why can't your disciples run for you?"
 
I smiled at her and said, "I run and they run too."
 
Had one of the disciples whom I had just passed run by at that moment, I could have said to the woman, "Here is the proof. I am running, and they are running too."
 
How do these people know me? I'm sure this lady was Puerto Rican, or else she wouldn't have used the term "Master."
 
22 January 1980 
 

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